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Forms Manual to Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law (American Casebook Series)

The principal function of this forms manual is to illustrate the exceptional importance of specific language to all contract-based transactions. Unintended ambiguities or carelessness in wording may result in the loss of properties worth millions of dollars. Additionally, differences in state law, regional custom, the identity and interests of the client, and the peculiarities of the specific transaction …

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Principles of Natural Resources Law (Concise Hornbook Series)

This Concise Hornbook is a comprehensive, user-friendly review of the full range of important natural resources law issues. It surveys cases, statutes, regulations, legal developments, and policies that have shaped, and will continue to influence, natural resources law throughout the 20th century and the early 21st century. Topics include resource economics, jurisdictional and …

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Cases and Materials on Environmental Law (American Casebook Series)

The Ninth Edition provides up-to-date treatment of climate change issues across different statutes. This classic casebook provides students with a thorough understanding of all major environmental regulatory schemes as well as insight into current policy controversies. The books pays particular attention to the dynamics involved in the creation and implementation of environmental law, focusing on interest group challenges, …

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Natural Resources Law (American Casebook Series)

This contemporary casebook speaks directly to the current generation of students. Web-based resources, rich visual aids, newspaper stories, and articles from legal periodicals are interspersed with traditional legal analysis of cases, statutes, and regulations. Specific topics include all the commodity resources―rangeland, timber, water, minerals, energy resources, and rural and urban land. It devotes considerable attention …

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Exam Pro on Wills, Trusts, and Estates

This new Exam Pro contains sample tests that cover an entire wills, trusts and estates course, as well as mini exams in discrete topics such as intestacy and future interests, as well as take. The book covers the Uniform Probate Code and general common law principles. A detailed answer key explains why the correct answer is …

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Wills, Trusts and Estates, Including Taxation and Future Interests, 4th

Provides an analysis of the laws of intestate succession, wills , trusts, future interests, and the construction of wills and trusts. The book relies heavily on the provisions of the Uniform Probate Code and the Uniform Trust Code and other Uniform laws relating to the transfer of wealth. The book also includes an overview of the federal transfer …

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Sum and Substance Audio on Wills and Trusts

This set of audio CDs is designed to enhance your understanding of the topics covered in courses in wills, trusts, and estates. The discussion begins with intestate succession, that is, how a person’s property is distributed when he or she dies without a will, with special attention given to the issues that arise in determining whether a …

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Cases and Materials on the Legal Profession (American Casebook Series)

Includes segments from Esquire, Legal Times, Texas Monthly, and Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer, as well as stimulating cases and law review articles. The order roughly tracks the ABA Model Rules. The casebook teaches students to think critically about the legal profession, yet avoids the cynicism that so often accompanies discussions of the profession. Includes introduction to the …

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Sum and Substance Audio on Professional Responsibility

Sum & Substance Audio CD Series allows you to assimilate the essentials of the course at your convenience – listen while working, commuting, exercising or just relaxing. The information and ideas you struggled with previously are now brought to life simply and succinctly. The CD provides Quick Reference Indexing, allowing you to quickly locate every topic in the …

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Black Letter Outline on Professional Responsibility

This text is designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school course on professional responsibility. It can be used both as a study aid when preparing for classes and as a review of the subject matter when studying for an examination. The law is succinctly …

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