Intro to Property & Commercial Law Master Notes + Copy&Paste Scaffolds

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If you want one document you can basically live in for this unit, this is it. It’s the main reason I was able to finish with an overall mark of 87. These are my Intro to Property and Commercial Law notes, built directly off the prescribed reading guide and the way the unit is actually taught in lectures and tutorials. The full set is 248 pages and designed to do two things really well: 1. help you actually understand the content (without getting lost in dense readings), and 2. help you write high-scoring problem answers quickly and confidently. If you’re using this properly, you genuinely don’t need to buy the textbook or spend hours reading cases. This is designed to be your one set of notes for the unit. ⸻ WHAT YOU’RE GETTING (AND HOW IT’S ORGANISED) Pages 1–154: Topic notes (full course coverage) This is the “teach me the unit” section. It walks through each topic in a structured, exam-friendly way and covers every reading in the guide. It condenses the textbook and case material into clear, usable principles, while still going beyond the simplified lecture slides so you don’t miss the details that get marks. Covers the full course topics: • Topic 1: Concept/function of property + intro real property (fixtures, tenure/estates, native title, old system vs Torrens foundations, basic indefeasibility concepts) • Topic 2: Choses in possession (ownership/possession, transfer by gift/sale, Sale of Goods framework, bailment and liability) • Topic 3: Choses in action (trust interests, deceased estates, assignability and limits) • Topic 4: Assignment and disposition of interests (legal/statutory assignment, equitable assignment, formalities, s 23C issues, future property, contracts for value) • Topic 5A: Priority regimes (SGA nemo dat and exceptions, legal v equitable priority rules, contests in equity, mere equities) Note: Topic 5B (PPSA/security interests) was not assessed for our unit and is not included. ⸻ Pages 155–248: Exam scaffolds (copy/paste answer structures) This is the section that saves you the most time in the exam. It’s a big bank of clear, step-by-step templates for the recurring problem question structures in this unit, written so you can plug facts in fast and keep your answer on track. What makes these scaffolds genuinely useful: • laid out like a checklist you can follow under time pressure • guides you through issue → rule → test → application in a clean order • includes the common forks in the road (eg whether something is a disposition vs an instruction) • written so you don’t waste time rewriting the same legal framework from scratch ⸻ WHY THIS SET HELPS • One file, one system: content + execution in the same document • Built for problem questions: helps you write structured answers quickly • Full coverage: based directly on the reading guide, not random notes • Revision-friendly: easy to navigate topic-by-topic without hunting across materials If you want to spend less time organising the unit and more time writing answers that actually score, this set is designed for that.