Property Examples & Explanations, 3rd Edition by Barlow Burke, Joseph Snoe
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Book Reviews of Property Examples & Explanations, 3rd Edition
Book Review: Very, very helpful - even for the Bar
Summary: 4 Stars
I have the 2001 edition (first?) and it was very helpful in getting me through my real property class in law school. I've also been using it to help me during bar review, and it's been a godsend in getting me through covenants & equitable servitudes. I would assume the newer edition is even better. I would highly recommend it.Book Review: good supplement
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a good supplement to keep me on track for the general concepts of property. The service and shipping was punctual and timely arrived.Book Review: Easy to use
Summary: 4 Stars
Comprehensive and easy to read and uderstand. Many examples and scenarios for each topics. I recommend it for every law studend.Book Review: Horrible for Estates and Future Interests
Summary: 3 Stars
I got this book in the hope that it would help me understand Estates and Future Interests. It didn't help much at all, as it basically had the same convoluted explanations as my text book. The rest of the chapters are fine, but for such an important and complex topic, this book really should have done better. I kind of feel like I wasted my money.Book Review: Editor Needed
Summary: 2 Stars
Overall, this book is poor. Not truly abysmal, but of of a generally poor nature.
While Burke and Snoe make decent work of explaining the law of Property, and showing examples, the book really needs a better editor.
In virtually every chapter, one of the fact patterns didn't make it through the author's revisioning without gaining or losing an appendage. Names will be referenced in the answer ("explanation") to a question, but that name is not in the fact pattern. Example: In the answer to Chapter 28, question 1E, there is a reference to a Bryan and his reliance on a reservation in the easement to Dan. There's no reference to Bryan in Question 1's fact pattern, and it's not particularly easy to see who they meant to refer to.
This is not an isolated incident. It's a regular occurrence in the book. And it doesn't inspire much confidence, since I'm using this book to finesse my comprehension of some of the finer points of my Property class.
Their policy questions are incredibly vague, as well. I mean, I'm not expecting to be handed the answer in the prompt, but some idea of what I'm expected to be thinking about would help. In addition, and this may be a criticism of the nature of property in general, the book occasionally tells you to "Come back when you've learned X," where X is something from a future chapter. If I need to know both W and X to answer a question, put it in X's latter chapter, not W's former chapter. It's better to refer back to something than to refer forward.
I don't have another Property guide to compare this to, I'm only comparing this to my other two E&E books - Glannon's Civil Procedure and Glannon's Torts. Those were excellently done.
Burke and Snoe don't do a bad job, they just need someone to spot-check all the errors in their book.