Chaoter 2.1

Question 1

Accretion

Answer 1

An addition to land from natural causes as, for example, from gradual action of the ocean or river waters

Question 2

Acknowledgment

Answer 2

A formal declaration before a duly authorized officer by a person who has executed an instrument that such execution is his or her act indeed

Question 3

Addition of fixtures

Answer 3

Occurs when a person affixes something to the land of another without an agreement permitting removal. The thing so affixed may then become the property of the landowner

Question 4

Administrator

Answer 4

A person appointed by the probate court to administer the estate of a person deceased

Question 5

Adverse possession

Answer 5

The open and notorious possession and occupancy under an evident claim or right, in denial or opposition to the title of another claimant

Question 6

Alluvion

Answer 6

Soul deposited by accretion; increase of earth on a shore or bank of a river

Question 7

Avulsion

Answer 7

The sudden tearing away or removal of land by action of water flowing over or through it.

Question 8

Eminent domain

Answer 8

The right of the government to acquire property for necessary public or quasi public use by condemnation; the owner must be fairly compensated. The right of the government to do this and the right of the private citizen to get paid is spelled out in the fifth amendment

Question 9

Escheat

Answer 9

The reverting of properties to the state when heirs capable of inheriting are lacking

Question 10

Executor

Answer 10

A person named in a will to carry out its provisions as to the disposition of the estate of the deceased person

Question 11

Foreclosure action

Answer 11

Procedure whereby property pledged as security for a debt is sold to pay the debt in the event of default in payment or terms

Question 12

Grant deed

Answer 12

A deed in which Grant is used as the word of conveyance. The grantor implicitly warrants that he or she has not already conveyed to any other person and that the estate conveyed is free from encumbrances done made or suffered by the grantor.

Question 13

Granted

Answer 13

The purchaser; a person to whom a grant is made

Question 14

Grantor

Answer 14

Seller of property; one who signs a deed

Question 15

Holographic will

Answer 15

Document written, dated, and signed in its entirety in the handwriting of the maker. It requires no witnesses

Question 16

Intestate

Answer 16

A person who dies having made no will or a will that is defective in form, in which case the estate descends to the heirs at law or next of kin

Question 17

Metes and bounds

Answer 17

A term used in describing the boundary lines of land, setting forth all the boundary lines together with their terminal points and angles

Question 18

Partition action

Answer 18

Court proceedings by which co owners seek to serve their joint ownership

Question 19

Private grant

Answer 19

An owner voluntarily conveys his or her ownership rights to another

Question 20

Private

Answer 20

An action that takes place in superior court, and the estate property may be sold during the probate period

Question 21

Public grant

Answer 21

A governmental agency deeds property to an individual or institution

Question 22

Quitclaim deed

Answer 22

A deed to relinquish any interest in property the grantor may have

Question 23

Registered domestic partner

Answer 23

Established one person’s meeting the criteria specified by family code a declaration of domestic partnership with the security of state of California

Question 24

Statutory will

Answer 24

A pre-printed form approved by the state in which a person nearly filled in the blank’s, usually without formal legal assistance. This will requires at least two witnesses

Question 25

Succession

Answer 25

The handing down of property to another person

Question 26

Trust deed

Answer 26

Conveys bear legal title (but no rights of use or possession) to a third-party called a trust. This deed differs from others in that title is held by the trustee nearly as security for a lien

Question 27

US government survey system

Answer 27

Established monuments as points of beginning. The monuments are intersected by two imaginary lines ( base and meridian)

Question 28

Warranty deed

Answer 28

A deed used to convey real property that contains warranties of title and quiet possession, and the grantor thus agrees to defend the premises against the lawful claims of third persons

Question 29

Witnessed will

Answer 29

A formal typewritten document signed by the individual who is making it, wherein they declare in the prescience of at least two witnesses that it is their own will

Question 30

Accession

Answer 30

You may acquire title to property that is added to your existing real estate