ONLINE LAW 19-PROPERTY & CREDITORS RIGHTS
COURSE SYLLABUS

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Updated: 12/07/01
David C. Jordan, Esq., Attorney at Law
Professor of Law/Director of Paralegal Studies
Telephone: (Campus) 818/364-7720
E-Mail: abogado@pacbell.net
Pager: 818/546-7060
Office Hours: through javachat, or call Prof. J.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Catalog: Law 19 is a study of the law of property including community property, joint tenancy, leases, deeds, contracts, escrows, deeds of trust, a study of the system of recording and search of public documents, a study of bankruptcy laws and forms and evictions (unlawful detainer actions).

The student will prepare all of the forms related to an eviction (unlawful detainer) and a simple Chapter 7 ("liquidation") bankruptcy, along with reviewing the documentation for transfers of real property and related escrow documents, and will also prepare a UCC-1 Financing Statement.

The student will also study secured transactions, collateral, purchase money secured interests, liens, attachment, garnishment, and other creditor's remedies.

Law 19 introduces the student to the nature of property and personalty, acquiring and owning property, real property, and the landlord-tenant relationship.

COURSE TEXT       

West's Business Law by Clarkson, Miller, Jentz, and Cross (Eighth Edition - red book) and
can order it online for $113.36  or directly from West Publishing 1-800-328-4880.


COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. The student will learn substantive personal and real property law, including secured transactions, bankruptcy, bailments,  eviction (unlawful detainer), and real property escrow documentation, and other laws relating to real and pesonal property.

2. The student will learn to "think critically" in law, and in the area of real and personal property. This will be accomplished through the multiple-choice quizzes, the postings to the "threaded discussions", and the assignments. The assignments require the student to prepare a UCC-1 Financing Statement, a personal debtor, Chapter 7 Petition for Bankruptcy, and accompanying schedules, and an Unlawful Detainer (both landlord and tenant forms), and papers dealing with the transfer of property (i.e. escrow paperwork).

3. The student will learn how to do legal research in the area of Personal and Real Property law.

4. The student will improve his/her writing skills and legal drafting/writing skills.

5. The student will improve their study skills and will improve how they study law.



GRADING & EVALUATION

The class will be composed of quizzes, postings to an "electronic bulletin board" - threaded discussions, and written projects, including the preparation of bankruptcy schedules, and a landlord-tenant eviction case.

Grades will be posted on the internet using microsoft excel. There will be a column for each quiz, project, and posting. Grades will be posted for each student under their last four numbers of their social security number in order to preserve confidentiality.

Note: Many students ask about the point grade. It is calculated by taking the total number of actual points earned to date, divided by the total amount of possible points to date and multiplying it by 100 to give a perenctage grade. At the upper left column, under "perfect student", SS#, the actual total possible points is listed for the use in calculating the students grade.

The "letter grade" scale is as follows.

A =  90-100 percent of total points
B =  80-90
C =  65-80
D =  55-65
F =  Below 55

                                                                STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS & TESTS

1. LECTURE NOTES
2. QUIZZES
3. ASSIGNMENTS
4. DISCUSSIONS


                                                                       COMPUTER POLICY

This class frequently uses materials which are posted on the world wide web. Students are encouraged to learn computer skills, including word processing, and use of the internet. No computer skills are required for this class. The student will learn, and will be taught the necessary skills to access materials for this class from the class webpage. The first time student is encouraged to take a tour of the web page, and then to test their knowledge of our webpage by taking the quiz on the tour of our webpage.

The primary web address for this class is http://yourlawprof.com, and this class is located at http://yourlawprof.com/22w/law19/

Students must have an email account to do this online class. This will help the student in communicating with the instructor and other students. An email account may be obtained at Yahoo.com. The student should retain a copy of all emails sent to the instructor, in case, in case the instructor losses the emailed work of the student.   

It is the responsability of a student who wishes to "drop" this class, to do so by computer on the website at the student information system: http://www.laccd.edu/ccaweb/sislogon.htm However, before dropping the class, the student is encouraged to discuss the problems he/she might be having with this class with Prof. Jordan to discuss the many ways these problems can be resolved without having to "drop the class".


* This syllabus is subject to change. Please note revision dates ("updated") above. Students are responsible for the most recent updated version of this syllabus. Prof. Jordan