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Foundations of Trust Law
The doctrinal and historical foundations of the trust relationship.
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How to Read a Revenue Ruling
The structure that governs every Revenue Ruling: Issue, Facts, Law and Analysis, Holding, Application
A primer on the internal structure of an IRS Revenue Ruling — the same structure whether the Ruling is one page or twenty — and how each part carries a distinct editorial weight.
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- Revenue Rulings
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- July 1, 2026
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Recently released scholarship and legal research.
Property Law·Foundations of Property Law — Second Edition
Title Insurance and Marketable Title
Allocating the Risks the Record Cannot Resolve
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Property Law·Foundations of Property Law — Second Edition
Promissory Notes
The Obligation, the Instrument, and the Right to Enforce
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Property Law·Foundations of Property Law — Second Edition
Mortgages and Deeds of Trust
Security in Land: Theory, Form, Creation, and Redemption
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Property Law·Foundations of Property Law — Second Edition
Foreclosure and Redemption
Enforcement of Real-Property Security and the Title It Produces
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Property Law·Foundations of Property Law — Second Edition
Fair Housing and Civil-Rights Overlays
The Limits Civil-Rights Law Places on Ownership, Tenancy, Lending, and Land Use
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Property Law·Foundations of Property Law — Second Edition
Digital and Intangible Property
Applying the Property Structure to Intangible, Electronic, and Severed Resources
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Trust Administration and Fiduciary Duties
The operational treatise on trust administration: acceptance, qualification, trustee powers and duties, and the inception of fiduciary responsibility.
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Foundations of Property Law
A chapter-by-chapter primer introducing the doctrines and vocabulary of American property law.
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Foundations of Property Law — Second Edition
A ground-up redevelopment of the property law treatise under the current Real Law Society Press editorial standards.
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Recent additions, revisions, and corpus milestones.
Canonical Treatise Architecture Adopted
Real Law Society Press has formally adopted the Canonical Treatise Architecture as the default chapter structure for every future treatise. Chapter 19, Promissory Notes, is designated the reference implementation.
Governance Framework v1.0 Adopted
Real Law Society Press has established Governance Framework v1.0: a versioned hierarchy of five governing manuals, a Single Source of Truth rule, an Amendment Rule, and a public governance changelog.
Governance Operationalization Completed
The Society has wired the existing publishing platform into Governance Framework v1.0. Every editorial workflow, script, and AI generation task now defers to the manuals automatically.
Trust & Fiduciary Law Collection Established
Real Law Society Press has established the Trust & Fiduciary Law Collection and adopted its permanent Collection Blueprint v1.0, ten-volume architecture, dependency map, publication roadmap, and publication registry.
Master Research Corpus Established
The Trust & Fiduciary Law Collection has received a permanent Master Research Corpus. Every future volume in the collection will inherit from it and produce its own volume-level dossier from that foundation.
Corpus Updates Integration Framework v1.0 Adopted
Real Law Society Press has adopted the Corpus Updates Integration Framework v1.0, designating Corpus Updates as the authoritative historical record for permanent institutional events affecting the Society's legal corpus.
Institutional
Editorial Guides
Reference publications produced by the Society for reading and understanding primary legal authorities.
Internal Revenue Manual·How to Read the IRM
Reading the Internal Revenue Manual
The IRM's part–chapter–section structure, and what weight to give it
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Real Property·Foundations of Property Law
What Is Real Property?
Chapter 1 — Property Law Collection
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Property Law·Foundations of Property Law
Types of Property
Chapter 2 — Property Law Collection
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Property Law·Foundations of Property Law
Estates in Land
Chapter 3 — Property Law Collection
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Recently Updated
Publications the Society has revised since first release.
Trust Law·Foundations of Trust Law
Historical Development II — American Reception, the Restatements, and the Uniform Trust Code
Chapter 5
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Trust Law·Foundations of Trust Law
The Trust as a Legal Institution
Chapter 6
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Trust Law·Foundations of Trust Law
Legal Title and Equitable Title
Chapter 7
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Trust Law·Foundations of Trust Law
The Trust Relationship: Settlor, Trustee, Beneficiary
Chapter 8
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