Federal

Question 1

Attached to and run with the land

Answer 1

appurtenances

Question 2

Governement uses this doctrine to control water rights

Answer 2

Prior appropriation

Question 3

Built in ______ and freestanding ______

Answer 3

Fixrute, personal property

Question 4

what are Legal/formal methods of land description, and what is it for?

Answer 4

Survey, meets and bounds, Rectangular (government survery, Recorded map “plat”
Describes the land and not improvements

Question 5

Used to confirm a legal description using onside measurements of property lines and location of houses, easements and encroachments. Uses monuments that establish property boundaries

Answer 5

Survery

Question 6

begins and ends at the point of begining (POB) only measurement that uses starting at or commercig at and moves in a set direction
measures in clock wise direction

Answer 6

meets and bounds

Question 7

Developed by the US government and uses range and meridians. What are range and meridians?

Answer 7

Rectangular survey
range and meridians are large imaginary lines. Ragne is vertical row of township (north-south) and tier is a horizontal row of twonship (east-west)

Question 8

a section is ___ mile by ___ mile aand How many acares does it have? How many spuare feet are in an acre?

Answer 8

1, 1 and has 640 acres, 43560 square feet/acre

Question 9

Plat map also called “lot, block subdivision system” or the lot & block system. Created by a survey ans shows the location and boundaries of individual land in a land subdivison. Most common in urban residental and map is recorded in county recorders office after approval but before building

Answer 9

Recorded map “plat”

Question 10

Allows the owner to continue present use that no longer complies with current zoning which is known as grand fathered or grandfather clause. Owner may not enlarge or rebuild if improvements are destroyed

Answer 10

Non conforming uses

Question 11

Government rights

Answer 11

Police power - public control of land
Eminent domain - private for public use using process called condemnation
Taxation
Escheat - take abandoned property

Question 12

Property taxes have prioity over other _____. property taxes are ad valorem which is _____. ___________ are charges against specific properites that benefit from public improvements

Answer 12

Liens, assed value, special asssesement

Assed value x tax rate = propery taxes

Question 13

What are the three freehold estates

Answer 13

Fe simple absolute - complete budle of right ( also known as fee estate or fee simple)
Fee simple defeasible - created by a deed condition and is normally a gift.
Life estate- life tenant is the owner till life then goes back to the fee simple absolute owner

Question 14

Any claim, right or interest held by a party who is not the legal owner of the property a nonpossessory interest

Answer 14

Encumbrances

Question 15

types of easement

Answer 15

In gross - no dominant property only servient (shared wall)

by Necessity - court ordered

Question 16

Lien types

Answer 16

Specific liens - government, mechanics or construction lien
Mortgage liens (volentary)
General liens - all property including personal and real property. Judgment liens (involuntary)

Question 17

Homestead rights

Answer 17

Protects primary residence against creditors such as judgment and debits for personal loans and credit cards but typically not against tax, mortgage, and mechanical liens

Question 18

____ in shares can be unequal but without right of survivorship to other owner. _____ in shares are equal and with right of survivorship to other owner. Tenancy by the __________ special form of ownership for married couples in some state.

Answer 18

Tenancy in common, Joint tenancy, entirety

Question 19

Types of conveyance deeds

Answer 19

General warranty deed, special(limited) warranty deed, quit claim deed, bargain and sale deed, trustee’s deed/sheriff’s deed/ certificate of sale transfer title, and reconveyance deed

Question 20

includes the most promises or convenants and greatest protection for the grantee

Answer 20

General warranty deed

Question 21

Two warranties. 1) the grantor owns and can convery (seisin) and 2) will protect against defects or encumbrances arising during grantors ownership period

Answer 21

special(limited) warranty deed

Question 22

Best for the grantor. “what I have got, You have got”

Used to clear clouds on title and grantor has no liability

Answer 22

quit claim deed