Ch 3 - Rights & Interest

Question 1

A deed which conveys whatever interest

Or title the grantor may have in the property, if any; contains no covenants or warranties of title, either expressed or implied; the grantor does not purport to have title or possess any interest in the property to be conveyed

Answer 1

Quit claim deed

Question 2

A necessity allowed by law

Answer 2

estover

Question 3

One who has the right to take an estate in remainder

Answer 3

Remainderman

Question 4

Laws passed to enable state and local governments

Answer 4

Enabling acts

Question 5

The fall and free ownership of rights in the land

Answer 5

Allodial system

Question 6

A doctrine used to prevent a right or claim because of delay or failure to assert the right or claim

Answer 6

Laches

Question 7

Authorization for the sheriff to seize and sell enough of the debtors property to satisfy the judgment and to pay expenses of the sale

Answer 7

Writ of execution

Question 8

A written notice that a lawsuit has been filed

Answer 8

Lis pendens

Question 9

Any claim, right, liability or restriction that limits a fee simple estate

Answer 9

Encumbrance

Question 10

rights usually given to utility companies and railroads

Answer 10

Commercial easements

Question 11

Deed restrictions or deed covenants that govern land use

Answer 11

Private controls

Question 12

What type of lien is always the first priority in liens?

Answer 12

A tax lien

Question 13

Type of lien created by the property owner

Answer 13

Voluntary lien

Question 14

Type of lien created by operation of law

Answer 14

Involuntary lien

Question 15

Governments rights to regulate land use derives from…

Answer 15

Police power

Question 16

True or false:

And individual’s estate in land is not determined by quantity

Answer 16

True - quantity is not a determining factor

Question 17

A right that one party has to use another party’s land for a special purpose

Answer 17

Easement

Question 18

What are some examples of police power?

Answer 18

• zoning
• building codes
• fire codes
• health codes
• rent control
• environmental protection
• fair housing
• real estate licensing

Question 19

What are the four categories of leasehold estates?

Answer 19

1. Estate for years
2. Periodic estate
3. Estate at will
4. Estate at sufferance

PYWS - periodic, years, will, sufferance

Question 20

What are two classifications of community property?

Answer 20

Separate property and community property

Question 21

What are the seven ways easements can be made?

Answer 21

CRAPING

Condemnation
Reservation
Agreement
Prescription 
Implication
Necessity
Grant

Question 22

What are the six ways easements can be ended?

Answer 22

Merger
Abandonment
Prescription
End of necessity 
Expiration of purpose 
Release

Question 23

What are the types of liens?

Answer 23

MGM

Mechanic’s lien
General lien
Mortgage lien

Question 24

Actual ownership of land for an unpredictable duration

Answer 24

Freehold estate

Question 25

The user of a property is not the owner and the length of the interest is of a definite duration

Answer 25

Non-freehold estate

Question 26

What are dower right, courtesy right, community property and Homestead protection all known as

Answer 26

Statutory estates