Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today’s episode, we talk about the special duties landowners and land possessors owe to people who enter their land, as well as the duties landlords owe to their tenants. Both are subtopics of Negligence under Tort Law.
In this episode we discuss:
- A general review of negligence and duty
- The duty landlords owe to tenants with respect to maintenance and latent defects
- The duty landlords owe to tenants to keep them safe from the criminal acts of third persons
- What duty landowners or possessors owe to people that enter their property – trespassers, social guests, and invitees
- Analyzing a hypo from the February 2019 California bar exam
- The rule for attractive nuisance
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Resources:
- “Listen and Learn” series
- Private Bar Exam Tutoring
- The Brainy Bar Bank: Streamlining Bar Study
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2019
- Podcast Episode 88: Listen and Learn – Negligence Per Se
- Podcast Episode 97: Listen and Learn – The Reasonable Person Standard
- Podcast Episode 147: Listen and Learn – Negligence: Duties of Professionals and Children
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