BLW 513 Lesson 4 – Property, Business Crimes, Secured Transactions, and Bankruptcy Introduction For Americans, property is the foundation upon which virtually everything else exists. It undergirds our legal system, our social system, and our government. Much of our legal system involves conflicts around property: who has a right to it, who can be excluded, how it can be held, what can be done on it, to it, over it, or with it, what happens if someone without rights takes it, and so on. What is real property and why do we care? Real property is land and anything permanently Read More …