Restatement of the Law Fourth,

Property

This Restatement seeks to bring comprehensiveness and coherence to American property law. Subjects to be covered include the classification of entitlements, possession, accession, and acquisition; ownership powers; protection of and limits on ownership; divided and shared ownership; title and transfer; easements, servitudes, and land use; and public rights and takings.
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In this summary, Reporter Henry E. Smith is joined by Associate Reporters John C.P. Goldberg, Thomas W. Merrill, and Christopher M. Newman to provide an overview of Tentative Draft No. 1.

At its meetings on October 13 and October 22-23, 2020, the Council approved Council Draft No. 3, which contained Chapters 1-5 of Division One, The Estate System, of Volume 4 (Divided and Shared Ownership), and Chapters 4-7 of Division One, Zoning, of Volume 7 (Land Use).

This project was on the 2020 Annual Meeting agenda. Although the 2020 Annual Meeting was cancelled, project drafts were produced and posted online. Each was a Tentative Draft, but no motions were made and no voting occurred. The drafts may be revised or supplemented before submission at the next Annual Meeting.

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This project has not yet been presented to membership at an Annual Meeting.

All draft approvals are subject to the discussion at the meeting and usual editorial prerogative.

For an in-depth description of this project, please visit the Property page of The ALI Adviser.

Reporter
Henry E. Smith Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
Associate Reporters
Maureen E. Brady Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
Sara C. Bronin University of Connecticut School of Law
Hartford, CT
Richard R. W. Brooks New York University School of Law
New York, NY
R. Wilson Freyermuth University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
Columbia, MO
John C. P. Goldberg Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
Daniel B. Kelly Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, IN
Brian A. Lee Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY
Thomas W. Merrill Columbia Law School
New York, NY
Christopher M. Newman George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Arlington, VA
Consultant
Susan F. French University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence W. Waggoner University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, MI
Advisers
Vicki Lynn Been New York University School of Law
New York, NY
Michael M. Berger Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Andre G. Bouchard Delaware Chancery Court
Wilmington, DE
Michael K. Brown Brown Gee & Wenger LLP
Walnut Creek, CA
José A. Cabranes U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
New Haven, CT
David L. Callies University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
Honolulu, HI
John G. Cameron, Jr. Dickinson Wright PLLC
Grand Rapids, MI
Robert L. Carter Illinois Appellate Court, Third District
Ottawa, IL
Eric R. Claeys George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Arlington, VA
Geoffrey W. Crawford U.S. District Court, District of Vermont
Rutland, VT
Judith C. Cutler Land Court Department of the Trial Court (Retired)
Boston, MA
Robert C. Ellickson Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Thomas P. Gallanis University of Iowa College of Law
Iowa City, IA
Todd R. Geremia Jones Day
New York, NY
Steven G. Horowitz Open Space Institute
New York, NY
Keith N. Hylton Boston University School of Law
Boston, MA
David James Kappos Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
New York, NY
Donald J. Kochan George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Arlington, VA
Nicole L. Kuenzi California State Water Resources Control Board
Sacramento, CA
Lance Liebman Columbia Law School
New York, NY
John A. Lovett Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
New Orleans, LA
Julia D. Mahoney University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA
Tanya D. Marsh Wake Forest University School of Law
Winston Salem, NC
John F. K. Oberdiek Rutgers Law School
Camden, NJ
Eduardo Peñalver Cornell Law School
Ithaca, NY
Daniel B. Rodriguez Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Chicago, IL
Carol Marguerite Rose Yale Law School (Retired)
New Haven, CT
Zachary C. Schauf Jenner & Block
Washington, DC
Michael A. Scodro Mayer Brown LLP
Chicago, IL
Lindsay S. See Office of the West Virginia Attorney General
Charleston, WV
Randall T. Shepard Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Indianapolis, IN
Kathleen Smalley Foley & Lardner LLP (Retired)
Los Angeles, CA
Craig Sonnenschein UpRight Law
Chicago, IL
Stephen Spitz Spitz & Neville, LLC.
Charleston, SC
Laura D. Stith Supreme Court of Missouri
Jefferson City, MO
Molly S. Van Houweling University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA
Joseph T. Waldo Waldo & Lyle, PC
Norfolk, VA
S. Albert Wang Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Steven O. Weise Proskauer Rose LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Daryl L. Wiesen Goodwin Procter
Boston, MA
Katrina M. Wyman New York University School of Law
New York, NY
Benjamin C. Zipursky Fordham University School of Law
New York, NY
Social Science Advisory Panel
Lee Alston Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Benito Arrunada Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
William A. Fischel Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Edward Glaeser Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Stephen Haber Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Zorina Khan Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
Gary Libecap Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Santa Barbara, CA
International Advisory Panel
Bram Akkermans Maastricht University
Maastricht MD, Netherlands
Lisa Austin University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Michael Bridge The London School of Economics and Political Science
London, United Kingdom
Yun-Chien Chang Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
Taipei City, Taiwan
Christopher Essert University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Christian Heinze University of Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Larissa Katz University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Toronto, Canada
Björn Laukemann Max Planck Institute Luxembourg
Kirchberg, Luxembourg
Ben McFarlane University College London Law
London, England
Donal Nolan University of Oxford, Worcester College
Oxford, England
James Penner National University of Singapore
Peter Turner University of Melbourne Law School
Melbourne, Australia
Sjef van Erp Maastricht University
Maastricht, Netherlands
Sarah Worthington University of Cambridge Faculty of Law
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Members Consultative Group
Kristen David Adams Stetson University College of Law
Gulfport, FL
Jerry L. Anderson Drake University Law School
Des Moines, IA
José F. Anderson University of Baltimore School of Law
Baltimore, MD
Christopher Edward Appel Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC
Ronald G. Aronovsky Southwestern Law School
Los Angeles, CA
Lynn A. Baker University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX
Dabney Dorsett Bassel Texas Second Court of Appeals
Fort Worth, TX
Jeffrey A. Beaver Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP
Seattle, WA
Ira Mark Bloom Albany Law School
Albany, NY
Joseph B. Bluemel Third Judicial District Court
Kemmerer, WY
Daniel B. Bogart Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law
Orange, CA
Willard L. Boyd III Nyemaster Goode, PC
Des Moines, IA
Charles H. Brower II Wayne State University Law School
Detroit, MI
Ann M. Burkhart University of Minnesota Law School
Minneapolis, MN
K. King Burnett Webb Burnett Cornbrooks (Retired)
Salisbury, MD
Timothy W. Burns Burns Bowen Bair LLP
Madison, WI
John P. Burton Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A.
Santa Fe, NM
J. Brett Busby Supreme Court of Texas
Austin, TX
Alejandro E. Camacho University of California, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, CA
W. Jonathan Cardi Wake Forest University School of Law
Winston Salem, NC
Steve Charnovitz George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
Ronald Chester New England Law School
Boston, MA
Cynthia K. Ching Department of Corporation Counsel, City and County of Honolulu
Honolulu, HI
Andrew A. Chirls Fineman Krekstein & Harris, PC
Philadelphia, PA
Stephen Yee Chow Hsuanyeh Law Group PC
Boston, MA
Penelope L. Christophorou Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
New York, NY
Avern Cohn U.S. District Court
Detroit, MI
Karen Czapanskiy University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
Baltimore, MD
Rueben C. Cásarez Wells Fargo & Co.
Houston, TX
Christopher Scott D'Angelo Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
Philadelphia, PA
Camille Davidson Southern Illinois University School of Law
Carbondale, IL
Anthony M. DiLeo Anthony M. DiLeo, APC
New Orleans, LA
Nikola R. Djuric Djuric Spratt P.A.
Atlanta, GA
Just. James J. Edelman High Court of Australia
Canberra, Australia
David M. English University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
Columbia, MO
Dave Fagundes University of Houston Law Center
Houston, TX
Manuel Farach Mrachek, Fitzgerald, Rose, Konopka,Thomas & Weiss, P.A.
West Palm Beach, FL
Richard G. Feder Philadelphia, PA
James A. Feldman James A. Feldman, Attorney at Law
Washington, DC
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law
Philadelphia, PA
Arthur Norman Field Field Consulting Services LLC
New York, NY
Joseph Z. Fleming Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Retired)
Miami, FL
Theodore J. Folkman Folkman LLC
Boston, MA
Julia P. Forrester Rogers Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Dallas, TX
Gregory R. Fox Lane Powell PC
Seattle, WA
Marvin Garfinkel Gladwyne, PA, USA
Mark P. Gergen University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA
Joseph M. Getty Court of Appeals of Maryland
Annapolis, MD
Philip S. Goldberg Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC
Richard R. Goldberg Ballard Spahr LLP (Retired)
Philadelphia, PA
Michael S. Goodrich Decker Jones, P.C.
Fort Worth, TX
Michael D. Green Wake Forest University School of Law
Winston Salem, NC
Charles E. Griffin Butler Snow LLP
Ridgeland, MS
Katheleen R. Guzman University of Oklahoma College of Law
Norman, OK
Anton G. Hajjar Chevy Chase, MD, USA
W. Scott Hastings Locke Lord LLP
Dallas, TX
Paul T. Hayden Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Gregory Alan Hicks University of Washington School of Law
Seattle, WA
Roger F. Holmes Biss & Holmes
Anchorage, AK
Kathleen J. Hopkins Real Property Law Group PLLC
Seattle, WA
Lolita Buckner Inniss Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Dallas, TX
John E. Iole Jones Day
Pittsburgh, PA
Robert A. James Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
San Francisco, CA
Jeff Kichaven Jeff Kichaven Commercial Mediation
Los Angeles, CA
Daniel S. Kleinberger Mitchell Hamline School of Law (Retired)
Saint Paul, MN
Gerald Korngold New York Law School
New York, NY
Michael J. Kramer Noble Circuit Court
Albion, IN
William K. Kroger Baker Botts L.L.P.
Houston, TX
Andrew Kull University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX
Sybil H. Landau New York, NY, USA
Douglas Laycock University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA
Herbert I. Lazerow University of San Diego School of Law
San Diego, CA
Browne C. Lewis North Carolina Central University School of Law
Durham, NC
Erika F. Lietzan University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
Columbia, MO
Carl H. Lisman Lisman Leckerling, P.C.
Burlington, VT
Michael J. Madison University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh, PA
Edward M. Mansfield Supreme Court of Iowa
Des Moines, IA
C. Scott Maravilla U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
Washington, DC
Lorelie S. Masters Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Washington, DC
Robert L. McCurley, Jr. Alabama Law Institute
Tuscaloosa, AL
James C. McKay, Jr. Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
Nancy A. McLaughlin University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Salt Lake City, UT
Richard J. McNeil Crowell & Moring LLP
Irvine, CA
Juliet M. Moringiello Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Harrisburg, PA
Alice M. Noble-Allgire Southern Illinois University School of Law (Retired)
Carbondale, IL
Robert H. Pemberton Texas Third Court of Appeals
Austin, TX
Kristina Pickering Supreme Court of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
Thomas E. Plank University of Tennessee College of Law
Knoxville, TN
Jeffrey M. Pollock Fox Rothschild LLP
Lawrenceville, NJ
Ellen S. Pryor UNT Dallas College of Law
Dallas, TX
David Reiss Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY
Daniel I.S.J. Rey-Bear Rey-Bear McLaughlin LLP
Spokane, WA
Dan Robbins Motion Picture Association, Inc.
Sherman Oaks, CA
James L. Robertson Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A.
Jackson, MS
Jonathan Rosenbloom Vermont Law School
South Royalton, VT
Jeremy Ledger Ross Amazon.com Inc.
Seattle, WA
Keith A. Rowley University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Las Vegas, NV
Patricia E. Salkin Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Central Islip, NY
Ronald Joseph Scalise, Jr. Tulane University School of Law
New Orleans, LA
William H. Schorling Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Philadelphia, PA
Victor E. Schwartz Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC
Kenneth W. Simons University of California, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, CA
Wenona T. Singel Office of the Governor, State of Michigan
Lansing, MI
Robert H. Sitkoff Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
David L. Sloss Santa Clara University School of Law
Santa Clara, CA
Douglas G. Smith Chicago, IL, USA
Lionel D. Smith McGill University Faculty of Law
Montreal, Canada
John M. Steadman District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Washington, DC
Paul B. Stephan University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA
Stewart E. Sterk Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
New York, NY
H. Mark Stichel Astrachan Gunst Thomas, P.C.
Baltimore, MD
Shale D. Stiller DLA Piper US LLP
Baltimore, MD
Lior Jacob Strahilevitz University of Chicago Law School
Chicago, IL
Guy Miller Struve Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
New York, NY
John D. Taurman Vinson & Elkins LLP (Retired)
Washington, DC
Robert H. Thomas Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert
Honolulu, HI
Thomas A. Tupitza Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett, P.C.
Erie, PA
Sjef van Erp Maastricht University
Maastricht, Netherlands
Linda A. Wasserman Honigman LLP
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Steven O. Weise Proskauer Rose LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Alan M. White City University of New York School of Law
Long Island City, NY
James A. Williams Hughes Vanderburg Williams & Bartoletti PLLC
Austin, TX
Charles W. Wirken Gust Rosenfeld, PLC
Phoenix, AZ
Richard W. Wright IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Evanston, IL

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