Principles of Property Law

Principle of Property Law is designed for the 1st year property law student in Canada. The book's information serves as an excellent, thorough, comprehensive foundation of property law principles for any Canadian law student. Indeed, the principles form much of the curriculum of many first year property law courses. For some property courses, it is a required text. Principles of Property Law is not for the uneducated. Even law students have to struggle with many of the concepts the book explains (who said property law was easy?) Nonetheless, even though some of the subject matter is difficult to comprehend, for the most part, Ziff tries to get the point across as clearly as possible. He is indeed aware of the difficulties posed in understanding the material (after all, he is a professor of law) however, practical examples of how many of the concepts are employed would be more helpful. This would allow the reader solidify the theory. I would suggest incorporating real life examples of how important the concepts and principles are and how they can "come to being" in application. Much of the material is abstract and intangible. By making the material concrete and tangible (something easy to relate to) through by employing real life examples of how the law applies, the book would attract a much wider audience. The book is written for the studious academic (I fit into this category) and I find myself paraphrasing much of the language used in the book.