Legal Terms Chapter 32 - Estates in Real Property Flashcards
Apt words
Suitable words.
Condition subsequent
A qualification that comes later.
Cornage
A requirement for a tenant to blow a horn to warn the country on the approach of the king’s enemies.
Defeasible estate
An estate that can be lost or defeated; also called a fee simple subject.
Determinable fee
An estate in real property that is capable of coming to an end automatically because of the happening of some event; also called fee simple determinable.
Determine
Will come to an end.
Escheat
To revert to the lord.
Esquire
A title following the name of an attorney, in place of Miss, Mrs., Mrs., or Mr. (abbreviated Esq.)
Estates
Ownership interests.
Estate tail male
A freehold estate restricting ownership to men in the family line.
Estate tail special
A freehold estate restricting ownership to a husband and wife and the heirs of their two bodies.
Fealty
Allegiance.
Fee simple estate
The largest estate that one can own in land, giving the holder absolute ownership and power of disposition during life, and descending to the owner’s heirs at death; also called fee and fee simple absolute.
Fee tail estate
A freehold estate that restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline.
Feoffee
Tenant.
Feoffment
A ceremony in which a tenant agrees to do homage in return for land.
Feoffor
Landlord.
Frank-almoign
Free alms.
Freehold estate
An estate in which the holder owns the land for life or forever.
Homage
A particular service.
Possibility of reverter
An interest in property due to the possibility that an event will occur that will cause the property to revert to the grantor.
Real property
The ground and anything attached to it.
Relief
A payment in which a decedent tenant’s heir would be allowed to be the tenant’s successor inheriting their land.
Revert
To go back.
Socage
A tenure that requires the oath of faithfulness, but only nominal services for the land.
Tenant in sergeantry
A servant such as a chamberlain, an armorer, a cook, or an esquire.
Villeinage
A requirement for a tenant to plow the lord’s land and make his hedges.
