(Ch. 6) Vocab (Dower, Curtesy, And Decent) Flashcards
A person appointed by the court to administer the estate of a deceased person who died instate (no will)
Administrator
A person appointed by the court to administer the estate of a deceased person who died instate (no will)
Administratrix
The transferring of real property from one person to another (4-45)
Alienation
Any condition revealed by a title search which may affect or impair the owner’s title to property because of their apparent or probable validity (8-81)
Cloud on Title
A supplement or addition to a will which adds to, subtract from, alters, revokes, or qualifies the provisions of the will (6-67)
Codicil
To bring to completion, perfection or fulfillment
Consummate
The right that a husband has in his wife’s estate at the death (6-66)
Curtesy
Ownership transferred by means of inheritance (6-66)
Descent
A gift of real or personal property by will
Devise
The one-half interest a wife has in the property of her husband; a life estate in one-half of the land the husband owns during the continuance of the marriage relationship (6-65)
Dower
The reverting of property to the state when heirs capable of inheriting are lacking, or the property is abandoned (4-43)
Escheat
A person named in a will to carry out its provisions as to the disposition of the estate of a deceased person (6-67)
Executor
Feminine of “executor.”
Executrix
Incomplete; not perfected. (6-65)
Inchoate
Having made no valid willI also a person who dies without a will, or with one which is defective it form (6-67)
Intestate
