Touch and Concern Is Dead, Long Live the Doctrine

Authors

A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of LawFollow

Abstract

I. Introduction: ALI Bids Farewell to Touch and Concern ... A. The Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes in Context ... B. The Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes and the Risks of Living in a Common Interest Community ... C. Touch and Concern and Its Substitutes

II. A Brief and Not Too Helpful History of Touch and Concern ... A. What Little We Know About Spencer’s Case

III. The Futile Modern Search for a Simple Definition of Touch and Concern

IV. The Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes and the Validity of Servitudes ... A. The ALI Case for Judicial Scrutiny ... B. Common Interest Communities and State Action ... C. Substitute State Action

V. A Consumer Protection Rationale for Touch and Concern ... A. The Consumer Protection Theory: A Benefit-Burden Nexus … B. Some Possible Cases for the Use of Touch and Concern … 1. Assessment Diversion ... 2. Excessive Product Bundling: The Problem of Compulsory Club Memberships

VI. Conclusion

Recommended Citation

A. Dan Tarlock, Touch and Concern Is Dead, Long Live the Doctrine, 77 Neb. L. Rev. (1998)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol77/iss4/9