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Easements authorize defined uses; licenses ordinarily grant revocable permission; profits authorize resource removal. Covenants and equitable servitudes require separate successor and remedy analysis. Nonuse alone ordinarily does not terminate an easement, and failed equitable relief does not necessarily extinguish a restriction. Nuisance, fixtures, and zoning add distinct rules. For takings, classify the governmental action before choosing categorical, multifactor, or exactions analysis. Each layer of property rights requires its own legal basis.
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Cotenants generally share possession despite unequal economic shares. Survivorship, severance, ouster, and accounting require separate analysis. Partition ends shared ownership through division or sale. Lease duration determines classification, while assignment and sublease determine privity and continuing obligations. Quiet enjoyment protects possession; habitability protects residential living conditions. Analyze mitigation, surrender, tort duties, retaliation, and fair housing under their distinct rules. The legal relationship between the parties controls the result.
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⚖️ MAKE PROPERTY LAW CLICK! ⚖️
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Classification controls the analysis. Determinable fees terminate automatically; conditions subsequent require exercise of a power; executory limitations shift ownership to another transferee. Life estates end with the measuring life and carry waste duties. Remainders await natural termination, while executory interests divest or follow a gap. Vesting depends on ascertainment and conditions, with class gifts requiring additional attention. Apply the correct perpetuities regime and test restraints separately. The conveyance's exact language determines the sequence of ownership.
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Constitutional criminal law unifies the curriculum into a cohesive analytical system.
Under Due Process and the First Amendment, a statute is void for vagueness if it lacks fair notice or minimal enforcement standards, and overbroad if it sweeps in protected speech. The Ex Post Facto Clauses bar legislative retroactive criminalization, while Due Process (Bouie) prevents unexpected judicial expansions.
Under the Eighth Amendment, states cannot criminalize status or addiction (Robinson). The death penalty is barred for non-homicide crimes, minor accomplices, juvenile offenders, and individuals with intellectual disabilities or insanity. Juveniles may not receive mandatory life without parole.
Under In re Winship, the prosecution must prove every element beyond a reasonable doubt without mandatory jury presumptions. States may place the burden on defendants for affirmative defenses. Under Apprendi and Alleyne, facts increasing statutory minimums or maximums require jury proof.
In multi-issue synthesis:
Felony Murder requires an unmerged, dangerous felony. The majority agency rule blocks felony murder for third-party fatal shots (though depraved-heart murder may apply), while the minority proximate cause rule allows conviction for foreseeable bystander deaths.

An honest but unreasonable mistake of fact (or claim of right) negates specific intent crimes, but fails against general intent crimes and justification defenses.

A killing failing perfect self-defense reduces to voluntary manslaughter via imperfect self-defense or heat of passion.

Combining constitutional awareness, statutory fluency, and structural discipline equips you to master criminal law examinations.
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Excuse defenses reduce liability when an actor lacks moral blameworthiness, capacity, or mens rea. Third parties assisting an excused actor remain guilty as accomplices, and victims retain self-defense rights.
Incompetency evaluates state at trial. Insanity evaluates state at crime due to mental disease or defect under four tests:
1. M'Naghten (Cognitive): Did not know the nature/quality or wrongfulness of the act.
2. Irresistible Impulse (Volitional): Lacked self-control/free choice to conform conduct.
3. Durham (Causal): Crime was the product of mental disease (but for cause).
4. MPC (Hybrid): Lacked substantial capacity to appreciate wrongfulness or conform conduct.
Diminished Capacity negates mens rea—limited in most states to specific intent crimes; allowed under MPC for any subjective mental state.
Voluntary Intoxication is a defense ONLY to specific intent crimes (and MPC purpose/knowledge). It is NEVER a defense to malice, general intent, strict liability, or MPC recklessness/negligence.
Involuntary Intoxication is treated like insanity and is a complete defense to ALL crimes if the standard is met.
Infancy: Conclusive incapacity under 7, rebuttable presumption 7 to 14, and adult capacity at 14+.
Duress requires reasonable belief of imminent death or serious injury. At common law, duress is NEVER a defense to intentional homicide (but IS to felony murder). The MPC uses a person of reasonable firmness standard and does NOT exclude homicide.
Mistake of Fact operates by negating mens rea:
Specific Intent: ANY honest mistake is a defense.
General Intent/Malice: Must be honest AND reasonable.
Strict Liability: NEVER a defense.
MPC: Defense if it negates the required mental state.
Mistake of Law is rarely a defense (even on lawyer’s advice), except for: (1) collateral civil law negating specific intent; (2) reliance on official interpretation; (3) Lambert notice exception; or (4) "willful" statutory violations.
Entrapment requires government agent inducement. Under the majority subjective test, it fails if defendant was predisposed. Under the minority/MPC objective test, predisposition is irrelevant and evaluates risk to a hypothetical law-abiding person.
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