QUIZ QUESTIONS Flashcards
What is another name for the subdivision method of land description?
Lot and block method
Another name for the rectangular survey system is
Government survey system
The oldest method of land description in the United States is
Meet and bounds method
Economic characteristics of real property include
Scarcity, location, and improvements
Physical characteristics of real property include
Immobility, indestructibility and uniqueness
Situs is another word for
Location
What does appurtenant mean?
Attached to the land
Legal tests of a fixture include
Method of annexation, adaptability, relationship of the parties
Annexation is the process by which
Personal property becomes real property
Severance occurs when
An item of real property becomes personal property
The definition of land does not include
Emblements
What are examples of fixtures?
Heating system, bathroom, cabinets, light fixtures
Personality is another name for
Chattel
Real estate is defined as
All human made improvements, land, permanent attachments
What are the bundle of rights?
Right of possession
Right of use
Right of quiet enjoyment
Rate of exclusion
Right of disposition
Samantha Smith has the legal right to act as if she owns the property although the property is actually owned by her sister Samantha is who
A holder of a life estate
A woman owned the feesimple title to a lot adjacent to her home. Upon her death, she willed the lot to the city pursuant to the city using the law as a park. This gives the city a what
Fee simple determinable
How might a homeowner be allowed certain protections from creditors?
Homestead rights
A life estate put autre vie is
Based on the lifetime of a person, other than the life tenant
Life estate is
Freehold estate based on the lifetime of a person
The simple defeasible is
Qualified fee estate, subject to the occurrence of a special event
Fee simple state is the same thing as what
Fee simple absolute
Freehold interest include
Fee simple
Fee simple defeasible
Life estates
The word ownership means the same thing as what other word
Freehold
What is true about cooperatives?
Is a lease hold interest
Title is held by a corporation
A prospective tenant purchases stock and becomes a shareholder
What is true about timeshare states?
Ownership is a real property interest
Owner ownership permits, multiple owners to buy a small interest
Ownership is for a specified unit for a specified period of time
Alan and Bonnie create a family trust they do this to protect their vast assets for the benefit of their only child Cheryl, Cheryl is the
Beneficiary
Alan and Bonnie create a family trust they do this to protect their assets for the benefit of their only child Cheryl. Alan and Bonnie are the
Trustors
What is true about corporations?
Partners personal assets are protected from lawsuits brought against the corporation
Joint tenancy requires four unities to be in place when tenancy is created what are those unities?
Possession interest time title PITT
Ashley and Jake are married and own a home together each holds an undivided interest they each hold the right of survivorship they are
Joint tenancy
The type of ownership that grants each owner of full and undivided write a possession is called what
Tenancy in common
Ownership by one person or corporation is called
Ownership in severalty
Real estate may not be held in which way
Lis pendens
When can easements be terminated?
When the need no longer exists
By the non-use or abandonment of the easement
By the release of the easement by the servient tenement
Easements are not created by
Restriction and prescription
Children attending laurel elementary school. I’ve been walking across Jake’s vacant lot for more than 10 years when jake decides to build a home on the property and attempts to kick the children off his property. The parents get involved in claim they have what.
An easement by implication
In order to overcome the problem of being landlocked court, can issue an order creating what
Easement by necessity
The canyons have an Eastman on the Layton‘s 10 acre parcel in the form of a right away the canyons are what
The dominant tenement
An example of an appertanance is
Utility
An easement is
The right to use
Without meaning to Laurel and Dayton, build a 2 foot fence onto their neighbors property. This would be example of.
Encroachment
An encumbrance is
A burden on title
A charger claim against a persons property made to enforce a monetary payment is what
A lien
A deed of trust is used when the buyer
Takes out a mortgage
He has died, but has left a will before his hair’s can receive their inheritance. He will need to go through a legal process called what
Probate
A male person who has left a valid will is called a
Testator
A male appointed person who carries out the direction of a will is called a
Testator
The word title means
The right to land
Ownership of land
Evidence of ownership
What is a deed?
The right to ownership of land
Evidence of ownership of real property
The owners bundle of rights
Which type of D transfers full ownership rights from the seller to the buyer
General warranty deed
A grantee received the greatest protection from which of the following deeds
General warranty deed
The type of deed that provides the least protection to the grantee is
Quit claim deed
A hand signed will is called a
Holographic will
This type of deed carries no warranties or representations. It gives only the interest that was foreclosed. This is called what
Sheriff deed
Alan died without a will this is called
Intestate
The essential elements of a deed include
Date
A grantor must
Be at least 18 years of age
Be legally competent
Make certain their name is spelled correctly on the deed
Utah is a non-disclosure state this means that
The sales price is not a matter of public record
The habendum clause begins with
To have and to hold
Whose signature must be on the deed in order for the deed to be valid
Grantor
More often than not in Utah delivery is accomplished by
Recording
A contract that never was valid is
Void
Real property given to another person by Will is called
Devise
The type of deed that provides no warranty as to title defects prior to the grantor’s ownership is a
Special warranty deed
Alana wants to finish her basement in order to make certain her additions are up to the current billing coach. She needs to apply for a.
Permit
The zoning code for a church or government building is
S
Permission to vary from zoning regulations for building or use purposes is called
Variance
Emergency police power could be exercised in the case of
A fire on the adjoining property
The granting of a real estate license is an example of
Police power
The authority, governing police power of zoning is
Granted to the city by the state
Police power does not include
Escheat
Inverse condemnation occurs when
In adjacent property is condemned and the use diminishes its value
Condemnation is an example of
Eminent domain
Randy died without a will and did not have any heirs the state of Utah will take ownership of his property. This process is called.
Escheat
Illicit home has been on the news recently. The home was the center of a major gang’s hideout. This home would be considered a.
Stigmatized property
Hidden defect that would not necessarily be known to an ordinary buyer is also referred to as
Latent defect
When an agent should know that a statement about a material fact is false it is also referred to as
Negligent misrepresentation