MBE Flashcards
Life Tenant Tax Duty
Duty to pay taxes but is limited to any financial benefit the life tenant gets for the property.
If taxes exceed the fair rental value, then have to pay. Because you are receiving a benefit from the property.
When one Joint tenant dies, then
the other joint tenant gets the entire property
Fee simple Condition subsequent
If condition fails, then right of reentry goes to third party.
RAP applies to
- Right of First Refussal
RAP doesn’t apply when
- there is a lease
- future interest revert to grantor (reversion, possibility of reverter, right of reentry)
Rights of First Refusal are enforcable when
it’s reasonable
Sublese vs assignee
Adverse Possession
ECHO
Exclusive, Continious, Hostile, Open and Noterious
Shelter Rule (recording issue)
Estoppel by Deed
Merger Clause
Equitable Conversion
Buyer bears risk of loss
If purchase the land subject to the mortgage
then the buyer is not responsible for the mortgage
How to terminate an easement
- Merger
- BFP and not included recorded
- Abondanment (overt act)
Constructive Eviction
A constructive eviction occurs when the landlord breaches a duty to a tenant that substantially intereferes with the tenants use and enjoyment of the property.
If the property is not habitable, then the tenant may
- refuse to pay rent
- Repair and deduct the cost of the repair from rent
- defense against eviction
Landlord may be liable for under a theory of torts,
- existing defects
- failure to make repairs required by housing code
- sometimes the criminal liability of a third e
Vested remainder vs contingent remainder
Vested Remaindr: condition subsequent
Contingent remainder: condition precedent
When a fee simple determinable is conveyed, the grantor has a
possibility of reverter
Attornment
Tenants Acknowledgment of a new landlord.
Can be done in writing or by making payments to the new landord
2 exceptions to duty to pay rent
- destruction the tenant is not at fault for
- Material Breach
2 types of EI
- Shifting executory interest: divests the interest of the grantee by cutting short a prior estate created in the same conveyance. The estate “shifts” from one grantee to another on the happening of the condition.
- Springing executory interest: divests the interest of the grantor or fills a gap in possession in which the estate reverts to the grantor.
6 covenants of a general warranty deed
present
- seisen
- conveyence
- encumburances
future
- quite enjoyment
- warrenty
- further assurences
Condesquent 2 situations
- unascertainable beneficiary
- subject to a condition precedent of the grantee’s taking