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In this issue, we're highlighting some of our resources on property and real estate law.
Minnesota Residential Real Estate
Minnesota Residential Real Estate is a great place to start your research on questions about property interests, titles, and all types of property transfers. There are also helpful sections that cover laws surrounding condominiums and townhomes, mobile homes, and landlord and tenant law. This resource contains short summaries of the law and citations to the most relevant Minnesota cases and statutes.
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LexisNexis Practice Guide: Minnesota Real Estate Litigation
The LexisNexis Practice Guides are great resources for anyone needing a short and practical guide to legal issues. Unlike the other resources on this list, the Minnesota Real Estate Litigation focuses solely on property issues that wind up in court. There are chapters covering eminent domain, landlord and tenant litigation, zoning, partition, and trespass and nuisance. Each chapter contains short summaries of the law, practical guidance and checklists, and forms.
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Minnesota Real Estate Purchase and Sale Deskbook
This two-volume deskbook provides in-depth guidance on a wide variety of real estate issues. Broader principles of real estate law are covered, but the set also includes chapters on more niche topics, like new construction, lake property, commercial property, and distressed property. There is also coverage of tax and environmental law issues. The Minnesota Real Estate Purchase and Sale Deskbook includes forms and practical tips from the experts.
All of these resources are available in print at the State Law Library. For more information about these resources, feel free to ask a law librarian.
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Uniform Conveyancing Blanks
The Minnesota Department of Commerce publishes a series of free online forms intended for transferring legal title to property from one person to another. The Uniform Conveyancing Blanks also include forms for mortgages, liens, and forms for dividing property as part of a probate proceeding or a divorce.
To access the forms, use the Department of Commerce's online search tools, CARDS. Select "Uniform Conveyancing Blanks" under area of interest. You can then download the form you want as a PDF.
This image shows the library's former location in the Ford Building. The library was housed here from 1973 until 1990, when the State Law Library moved into its current space at the Minnesota Judicial Center.
On March 3, the State Law Library will celebrate its 173rd birthday. The Minnesota State Law Library was established on March 3, 1849 by the same act of Congress that created the Territory of Minnesota. Throughout its history, the State Law Library has been housed in six different locations (including a tavern, a former Ford showroom and factory, and several state capitol buildings), endured three fires and two floods, and been led by 26 different State Law Librarians. To learn more, visit our page A Brief History of the Minnesota State Law Library.
State law library staff members pose for a photo in the stacks in 1980. Pictured left to right: Leslie Gustafson, Office Manager; Ethel Gordon, Clerk/Filer; Virginia Henning, Serials Librarian; Shirley David, Assistant Librarian; Rene Reed, Reference; and Marvin Roger Anderson, State Law Librarian, 1980-2002
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