Prof. Michael Dorf has a very funny article over at FindLaw called "The Five-Minute Law School: Everything You Learn In Your First Year, More or Less." You can read it here:
And here is an excerpt with his hilarious summary of Property:
"Property law is more of a hazing ritual than an actual subject. Typical property classes teach students the fine distinctions among different forms of ownership of land in medieval England, such as the "fee tail" and the "fee simple determinable," neither of which, alas, has anything to do with collecting a legal fee. Students forget these distinctions within a few seconds of completing their property law final exams, which is unfortunate, because then they have to learn them all over again for the bar exam. Only after successfully completing the bar exam, is it safe to forget the distinctions permanently."
