Chapter 4

Question 1

Affirmative Easement

Answer 1

Alllows holder of easement to go on grantors land for a specific purpose

Question 2

Freehold Estates

Answer 2

• Life Estate

- Fee Simple Estate

Question 3

Life Estate

Answer 3

Grants possession only during life of a specific person

Question 4

Fee Simple Estate

Answer 4

Confers max number of rights and privledges recognized by law

Question 5

Tenancy at will

Answer 5

Lease with no specific duration and can be terminated by either party

Question 6

Periodic tenancy

Answer 6

Successive periods of time until either party terminates

Question 7

Tenancy at sufferance

Answer 7

Not a leasehold interest; continued possession after lease expires

Question 8

Encumbrance

Answer 8

Claim or interest in property held by person other than owner

Question 9

Encroachment

Answer 9

Physical intrusion or trespass upon another property

Question 10

Easement implied

Answer 10

Parcel of land cut off from any access to a public way

Question 11

Easement of gross

Answer 11

• Does not benefit a particular parcel of land
• Benefits holder of easement personally
• Burdens one or more properties
• Transferred only be assigning the easement right

Question 12

Easement appurtenant

Answer 12

• Attached to and part of dominant estate, automatically transferred when dominant land sold
• Easement that benefits a parcel of land