This convenient study guide provides law students with basic principles and issues of the law surrounding land transactions and finance. Each law is succinctly stated, with expert analysis of citations, points of law, rules, and exceptions. For detailed study of a point of law, citations to major student texts are provided. Discusses: sale of land contracts, conveyances and titles, real estate finance, mortgage substitutes, rights and duties prior to foreclosure, transfer by the mortgagor/mortgagee, mortgage debt, foreclosure, priority problems, governmental involvement in the mortgage market, alternative mortgage loan instruments, condominiums, and cooperatives.