Highlights of the latest updates include:  

• New Chapter 78A, Rails-to-Trails: Conversion of Railroad Corridors to Recreational Trails, written by Rails-to-Trails expert Danaya C. Wright, which analyzes some of the most contested property disputes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries--disputes concerning the many issues surrounding public use for conservation, recreation, and public security, of land that had been used as railroad corridors.    
• New Chapter 78B, Green Buildings, in which General Editor Michael Allan Wolf explores the green building phenomenon and explains why real estate attorneys need to know about green buildings.  
• Newest Supreme Court Update, in which Michael Allan Wolf discusses cases addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2006-2007 Term impacting important issues in areas relating to real property including environmental regulation, property taxes, mortgage regulation, public lands, and deprivations of property without due process of law.  
• Each update to the treatise contains expert analysis and includes POWELL IN THE COURTS, a quarterly analysis of recent case law citing Powell written by Michael Allan Wolf.  Recent topics include adverse possession, easements, distinguishing licenses from leases, lis pendens, severance of joint tenancy, voiding a deed for failure in delivery, and breach of the covenant of seisin.

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