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LAW 131 Real Property Law (3)
3 hours lecture per week
Recommended Preparation: Credit in or qualification for ENG 100 or ESL 100.
LAW 131 covers basic substantive law and procedural aspects of real property law. It exposes the student to the legal principles and primary forms utilized in typical real estate transactions, including purchase and sales agreements, mortgages, leases, easements, deeds, closing and recording documents.
Upon successful completion of LAW 131, the student should be able to:
- Describe the elements of a deed.
- List the requisite elements of contracts and draft an agreement of sale.
- List and explain the steps involved in a residential real estate transaction.
- Explain the concept for quieting title to real property and describe the Hawai’i statutes related thereto.
- Explain the landlord-tenant code.
- Describe the legal actions involving real property such as eviction, foreclosure, partition, and quiet title suits.