Real Property Flashcards

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Present Possessory Estate: Fee Simple Absolute

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Infinite present possession

“To A and his heirs” “To A”
Grantor has no future interest

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Present Possessory Estate: Fee Simple Determinable

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Limited present possession, and AUTOMATICALLY reverts back to grantor upon specified event

“To A and his heirs, until…”
Grantor has possibility of reverter (REVERTER ONLY FOR FEE SIMPLE DETERMINABLES)

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Present Possessory Estate: Fee Simple Subject to a Condition Subsequent

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Limited present possession until the happening of a named event. However, it will NOT AUTOMATICALLY revert to grantor - grantor must take an additional step

“To A and his heird, but if…”
Grantor has right of entry (ONLY IF HE EXERCISES IT)

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Executory interest

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Possibility of reverter only in grantor, not a third party. But if grantor puts it in a third party then that third party has an executory itnerest.

“To A and his heirs for so long as liquor is not sold, in that event, to B.”
Third party is executor interest and can reenter on the stated event, grantor cannot.
Subject to RAP (whereas possibility of reverter is not)

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Life Estate

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Estate measured by the life of one or more persons

“To A for life” or “To A for the life of B”
Grantor has reversion

Subject to the same rules as fee simple determinable, condition subsequent, exec interest

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Rights and duties of a life tenant

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Entitled to
(1) ordinary uses and profits of the land

CANNOT:
(1) injure interests of remainderman or reversioner

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Types of life tenant waste

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Affirmative Waste - Natural Resources
Permissive Waste
Ameliorative Waste

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Affirmative Waste

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Can exploit natural resources if

(1) necessary for repair and maintenance
(2) land suitable for such use
(3) permitted by grantor

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Permissive Waste

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Obligated to

(1) preserve land and structures
(2) pay interest on mortgates (not principal)
(3) pay ordinary taxes
(4) pay special assessments

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Ameliorative Waste

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Change that benefits property economically - can do it if

(1) market value of the future interests is not diminished, AND EITHER
(1) remaindermen do not object, OR
(2) substantial change in neighborhood conditions has deprived property in its current form

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Future interests

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Possibility of FUTURE possession, but it is a present, legally protected right in property.

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Whats a reversion?

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estate ends and no one else entitled to it because there is no other future interest (ex. To A for life.), grantor has a reversion.

NEVER subject to Rules Against Perpetuates
Reversion is alienable, inheritable, devisable

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What is a remainder?

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It’s the third party who has the estate after a life estate. There can be no gaps between grantee and remainder.

Remainders CAN NEVER follow a fee simple since fee simples are indefinite, and remainders cannot cut short the preceding estate

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Four types of remainders

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(1) Vested remainder
(2) Vested remainder subject to open
(3) Vested remainder subject to total divestment
(4) Contingent remainder

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vested remainder

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It’s an existing person - has immediate possession upon normal termination of preceding estate

No RAP

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Vested remainder subject to open

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Remainder created in a class of persons (children)

Subject to RAP as long as class stays open

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Vested remainder subject to total divestment

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remainder subject to a condition SUBSEQUENT

“to A for life, then B, but if B never marries then to C”
If the action in the future happens then it goes to C so B has a remainder subject to total divestment

No RAP

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Contingent remainder

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Created in unborn or unascertained persons, OR, it’s a remainder subject to a condition PRESCEDENT

“To A for life, then to B IF he marries C.”
Subject to RAP

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Two types of executory interests

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Shifting exec interest - shifts from transferee to executor interest (cuts short prior estate)

Springing exec interest - follows a gap (goes to transferee, then back to owner, then to exec interest after a gap in time)

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Class Gifts - Rule of convenience

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Class will close once a member of the class can call for a distribution

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Rule Against Perpetuities

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No interest in property valid unless it vests within 21 years after some life in being. Only effects violating circumstance - rest is OK

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When does RAP period begin?

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Will: Testator’s death
Irrevocable Trust: date it is created
Revocable Trust: date it becomes irrevocable

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Rule Against Restraints on Alienation

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Cannot restrain transferability of legal interest in property

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Joint Tenancy

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Each tenant has an undivided interest in the whole estate, and the surviving co-tenant has a right to the whole estate (right of survivorship).

Must have and take interest as to the same (EVERYTHING MUST BE EQUAL!)

(1) time
(2) title
(3) interest
(4) possession

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How do you terminate a joint tenancy?

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(1) Severance - convereted to tenancy in common (unless more than three - then only terminated as to that conveyor)
(2) conveyance by one joint tenant
(3) death of co-tenant
(4) voluntary/involuntary partition

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Tenancy by the Entirety

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Husband and wife each has an undivided interest in the whole estate and a right of survivorship.

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How do you terminate a tenancy by the entirety?

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(1) Death
(2) divorce
(3) mutual agreement
(4) joint creditor

NO involuntary partition

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Tenancy in Common

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Each tenant has a distinct, proportionate, undivided interest in the property - NO RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP

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How do you terminate a tenancy in common?

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Partition

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Rights and duties of cotenants

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(1) possession
(2) No need to share profits of own making unless agreement otherwise. MUST share profits if rents from third parties or exploitations of land/mining.
(3) Not encumber other’s interest (mortgate example - mortgage only applies to your interest, not others)
(4) Partition

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Transactions that won’t destroy joint tenancy

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(1) mortgage
(2) Judgment liens
(3) Leases - although states are split

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Cotenants responsibilities with expenses

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(1) Repairs - can be reimbursed for NECESSARY reparis
(2) Improvements - no right of contribution
(3) Taxes and mortgages - if paid on entire property UNLESS co-tenant in sole possession, then only entitled to expenses that exceed rental value of her use

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Tenancy for Years

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Tenant has present possessory interest and landlord has a future interest (reversion)
Ends automatically at termination date (or surrender, failure to pay rent)

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Periodic Tenancy

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Tenancy continues for successive periods. Created by

(1) express agreement (agree month to month)
(2) implication (Lease only payable monthly - silent on time frame)
(3) Operation of law (tenancy in years ends and tenat keeps leasing)

AUTOMATICALLY RENEWS until notice

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Tenancy at Will

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Termiable at will of either landlord/tenant - must be created by written agreement. Give notice and reasonable time to quit

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Tenancy in Sufferance

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Tenant WRONGFULLY remains in possession - tenant can stay until landlord evicts tenant

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Hold Over Doctrine

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If tenant continues in possession after his right has ended, landlord may:

(1) Evict
(2) Bind to new periodic tenancy
(3) If commercial - hold to year to year if previous lease was year or more
(4) If residential - month to month

DOESN’T APPLY IF (1) seasonal lease, (2) severe illness, (3) hold for only a few more hours, (4) landlord gives notice that he doesn’t want it to continue

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What can landlord do if tenant on premises and fails to pay rent

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Evict or sue for rent

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What can landlord do if tenant abandons?

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Do nothing or repossess

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40
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Landlord dutes to tenant

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(1) Deliver premises on starting of lease

(2) Quiet enjoyment

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Partial Eviction by landlord

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Tenant released from paying rent, even if tenant continues in possession of the remainder

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Partial Eviction by third person

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Tenant liable for the reasonable rental value of the portion she possess

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Constructive Eviction

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Landlord’s breach of duty renders premises unsuitable for occupancy, tenant must prove

(1) landlord breached duty
(2) breach material to tenant’s enjoyment
(3) Tenant gave landlord notice and time to repair
(4) Tenant vacated premises

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Implied Warranty of Habitability

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ONLY RESIDENTIAL TENANTS - NONWAIVABLE - landlord duties tied to local housing codes. At breach tenant may:

(1) Terminate lease
(2) Make repairs and offset cost against future rent
(3) Abate the rent
(4) remain in possession, pay full rent, sue for damages

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Can a tenant freely transfer leasehold interest?

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YES - unless express restriction

Complete transfer is an assignment
If tenant retains any part then it’s a sublease

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Consequences of lease assignment

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Assignee and landlord are in “privity of estate” - each responsible for all convents that run with the land (touches and concerns)

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How does assignment impact rent payments between transferor and assignee?

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Assignee owes rent directly to landlord
Transferor no longer in privity of estate with landlord
Transferor remains obligated on original contractual obligation to pay rent (privity of contract)

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How does subless impact rent payments between original lessee and sublessee?

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Sub pays original lessee rent, who pays to landlord
Sub not personally liable to landlord
Sub cannot enforce main agreement (except warranties of habitability)

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Does assignment or sublease make lease void?

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NO, but landlord may terminate lease or sue

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50
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Condemnation of leases

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If entire lease taken - rent extinguished and lessee is entitled to compensation

If partial lease is taken - not discharged from rent but lessee is entitled to compensation for the taking

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Landlord’s tort obligation

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Modern trend is will be held liable for injuries resulting from ordinary negligence if he had notice of a defect and an opportunity to inspect it

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Fixture

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chattel that is affixed to land and has ceased being personal property but is now part of the real property

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How to determine whether an item is a fixture

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Look at

(1) nature of the article
(2) manner of attachment
(3) amount of damage it would cause removing it

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54
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Are annexed chattels from lessee fixtures?

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NO, unless agreement existed. Annexed chattels must be removed by end of lease term

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55
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What are the nonpossessory interests in land?

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Easements
Profits
Covenants
Servitudes

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Easement

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Right to use another’s land for a special purpose - assumed to be of PERPETUAL duration unless stated otherwise

57
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Easement Appurtenant

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Benefits holder in his physical use or enjoyment of another tract of land. There must be a dominant tenement and the servient tenement.

Passes with BENEFITED land REGARDLESS IF IN DEED, unless bona fide purchase of servient estate had no notice of easement

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Easement in Gross

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Acquire right to use servient tenement independent of possession of another tract of land (ex. swim in my pool)Not transferrable unless commercial

59
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Ways to create an easement

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Express grant or reservation (writing)
Implication (no writing)
Prescription (no writing)

60
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Easement by Express Grant of Easement requirement (writing required unless under one year)

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(1) Writing (unless its under one year)
(2) signed by grantor
(3) identifies parties
(4) identifies land

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Easement by Express Reservation (writing required)

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Grantor conveys title of land to someone else but reserves the right to continue to use the tract for a special purpose. GRANTOR CANNOT RESERVE IT FOR ANYONE BUT HIMSELF!

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Easement by Implication (no writing required)

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Created by operation of law and an exception to statute of frauds

(1) Easement implied from existing use
(2) Easement implied without any existing use
(3) Easement by necessity

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Easement implied from existing use (no writing required)

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(1) Prior to division of tract
(2) Apparent and continuous use exists on the “servient” part
(3) Reasonably necessary for enjoyment of “dominant” part
(4) Parties intended the use to continue after division of land

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Easement implied without any existing use (no writing required)

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Subdivision plat - buyers have implied easements to use the streets to access their lots IF THERE WAS A RECORDED PLAT OR MAP REFERENCED AT SALE

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Easement by Necessity (no writing required)

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Sale deprives another of utility or access

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Easement by Prescription (no writing required)

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Adverse possession, must show

(1) open and notorious
(2) Adverse
(3) Continuous and uninterrupted
(4) Statutory period

67
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Misuse of easement

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DOES NOT TERMINATE easement - get an injunction

Split costs except if only one party using the easement

68
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How to terminate an easement

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(1) Stated conditions satisfied
(2) Merger (same person gets servient and dominant)
(3) Release
(4) Abandoned (WITH INTENTION TO ABANDON - NOT MERELY NONUSE)
(5) Estoppel
(6) Prescription
(7) Necessity ends
(8) Condemnation/destruction

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Easement vs. License

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Failed easement results in a license. Licenses are revocable at will by licensor Cannot transfer

70
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When does a license break the general rule that they are revocable and become irrevocable?

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(1) Estoppel

(2) License coupled with an interest

71
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Profits definition

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Right to take resources from another’s land. All easement rules govern. Can also be extinguished by surcharge (misuse that burden servient estate). WRITING REQUIRED

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Covenant

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A WRITTEN promise to do something on land or promise not to do something on the land. Usually in the deeds and run with the lands if requirements met. WRITING IS ALWAYS REQUIRED.

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When will a covenant run with the burdened estate?

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(1) intent to be bound
(2) notice of covenant
(3) Horizontal privity (original parties shared interest together)
(4) Vertical privity
(5) Touch and concern the land

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When will a covenant run with the benefited estate?

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(1) Intent
(2) Vertical privity
(3) touches and concerns land

75
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Termination of Covenant

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(1) Release
(2) Merger
(3) Condemnation of burdened property

76
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Equitable Servitude

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A type of covenant that runs with the land, and equity will enforce against assigness who have notice of the covenant.

77
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Difference between equitable servitude and covenant?

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Look at remedy sought
Money damages - Real covenant
Injunction - equitable servitude

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REquirements for equitable servitude burden to run (successor of promisor)

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(1) Intended
(2) notice
(3) touches and concerns

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Requirements for equitable servitude benefit to run (successor of promisee)

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(1) Intended

(2) Touches and concerns

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Adverse possession elements

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Possessor must show

(1) actual entry
(2) exclusive possession
(3) open and notorious
(4) adverse
(5) Continuous

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Disability for Adverse possession purposes

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SOL does not begin to run if true owner was under some disability when the cause of action first accrued

82
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Conveying Land Elements - Land Sale Contract Requirements

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Contract must state

(1) Parties
(2) Price
(3) Description of Land
(4) Must have marketable title

83
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What happens after a contract for sale of land is signed?

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(1) Buyer regarded as owner of real property
(2) Seller interest considered personal property
(3) Title remains with seller in trust for buyer

84
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Risk of loss of property - who bears?

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Before closing - buyer (but seller must credit insurance proceeds he receives)

85
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What is a seller or buyer dies before closing?

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Seller dies - legal title passes to his heirs and give up to buyer at closing
buyer dies - heirs can demand conveyance of land at closing

86
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Marketable title definition (implied covenant of marketability)

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Doesn’t mean perfect title - just enough that there is not an unreasonable risk of litigation

This theory only exists before closing - after closing remedy is against express promises in deed

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What makes a title unmarketable?

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(1) Defects in record chain
(2) Encumberances (but if seller can satisfy mortgage or lien at closing then it isn’t unmarketable)
(3) Violation of zoning ordinance

REMEMBER: Seller has till time of closing to make title marketable

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Is time of the essence in contract sales of property?

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NO, unless stated in contract, parties intent, or notice that time is of the essence

89
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Remedies for breach of sale of land

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(1) Damages (Contract price - market value + incidentials)

(2) And if land is unique - specific performance

90
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Seller liable for what in a contract sale of land

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(1) fraud
(2) active concealment
(3) failure to disclose (knows or has reason to know and not apparent and defect is serious)

But specific disclaimers allowed, general disclaimers are not

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Deed formalities

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Transfers title to an interest in real property.

(1) writing
(2) signed by grantor
(3) reasonably identifies parties and land
(4) delivered (intention to make deed presently effective)
(5) accepted

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Defective deeds

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Void - fraud, forged, never delivered

Voidable - minors, incapacitated persons

93
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Desription of Land in deeds

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If land description too indefinite, grantor retains title but court may step in and reform. Rules of construction apply in following order:

(1) natural monuments
(2) artificial monuments
(3) courses
(4) distances
(5) name
(6) quantity

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Boundary case issues with land rights

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(1) Title to land goes to center of water boundary
(2) Slow and imperceptible change changes legal boundary
(3) Accretion (slow deposit of soil) belongs to owner
(4) Avulsion (sudden change in water course) does not change ownership rights

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When will court always reform a deed?

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(1) mutual mistake
(2) Scrivener’s error
(3) unilateral mistake caused by mispresentation

96
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Transfer of deed

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Grantor must intend to make a deed presently effective even if possession is postponed

97
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Trasnfer of deed for commercial transaction (escrow)

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Valid conditional delivery when grantor gives it to third party to hold until condition occurs.

98
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Covenants for title (title assurances) - three types

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(1) general warranty deed
(2) special warranty deed
(3) quitclaim deed

99
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Covenants for title vs. Real covenants

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Totally different - real covenants are written promises to do or not do something, they have nothing to do with title.

100
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What are the covenants in a general warranty deed?

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(1) Seisin (grantor has title and possession at time of grant)
(2) Right to convey (title alone satisifies this)
(3) No encumberances
(4) Quiet enjoyment
(5) Warranty (grantor will defend against superior claims)
(6) Further assurances (grantor will perfect title conveyed)

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Special warranty deed assurances

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(1) grantor has not conveyed to anyone else

(2) estate is free of encumbrances

102
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Quitclaim deed

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Releases whatever interest grantor has - no covenants of title are included

103
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Recording Rule

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If grantor conveyed same proprety to more than one person, first to record prevails, except depending on the jurisdiction you’re in

(1) Notice
(2) Race Notice

104
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Notice Jurisdiction

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Subsequent BFP prevails over prior grantee who failed to record. Subsequent BFP can have no constructive or actual notice of prior sale at time of conveyance.

REMEMBER - protected regardless of whether subsequent BFP records or not.

“Any conveyance of an interest in land, shall not be valid against any subsequent purchase of value, without notice, unless the conveyance is recorded.”

105
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Race Notice Jurisdiction

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Subsequent BFP protected only if she takes without notice AND records before prior grantee

106
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Race Jurisdiction

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Whoever records first wins - notice is irrelevant

107
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Who do notice and race notice jurisdictions apply to?

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BFPs - purchaser, without notice, pays valuable consideration

Without notice only applies at the time of conveyance - doesn’t matter what they learned after conveyance but before recording

108
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Mortgage

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Lender can realize mortgaged real estate by having a judicial foreclosure sale conducted by the sheriff

109
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Deed of Trust

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Debtor is trustor and gives deed to a third party trustee. Third party trustee closely connected with lender/beneficiary

110
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Installment land contract

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Purchaser obtains legal title only when full contract price paid off

Therefore, only receives interest in estate to the extent that they paid value if they are not sheltered by BFP rule.. Court can divide up many ways.

111
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Can mortgagee transfer mortgage?

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YES - note and mortgage must pass to same person. Note can transfer without the mortgage but mortgage follows automatically UNLESS mortgagee-transferor reserves right to mortgage.

112
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Elements to transfer a mortgage by mortgagee and make transferee a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE

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(1) Must be in negotiable form
(2) original note indorsed and signed by named payee
(3) delivered to transferee
(4) transferee takes in good faith AND pay value

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Q

Benefits of holder in due course

A

Takes note free of personal defenses (fraud, waiver, payment) of maker, but still subject to real defenses (infancy, incapacity, duress)

114
Q

Transfer by Mortgagor

A

If assumption agreement signed: grantee becomes primarily liable and original mortgagor secondarily liable as surety (original mortgagor released if grantee

If NO assumption agreement signed OR transferee takes “subject to” the mortgage: grantee not personally liable and original mortgagor remains primarily liable.

Any modification after grantee takes mortgage releases original mortgagor of liability.

115
Q

How does mortgagee take possession if mortgagor fails to pay?

A

Lien theory - mortgagee considered holder of a security interest only and therefore cannot have possession until after foreclosure

Title theory - legal title in mortgagee and can take possession at any time

Intermediate theory - legal title in mortgagor until default, and then in mortgagee. mortgagee may demand possession when default occurs (little difference between title and intermeidate theory)

116
Q

Redemption before foreclosure

A

Anytime before foreclosure, mortgagor may redeem the property by paying the amount due. Some states allow for statutory redemption (6 months after foreclosure sale has occured)

117
Q

Purchase Money Mortgage

A

Mortgage given in exchange for funds used to purchase the property.

PMMs have priority over mortgages, liens, and other claims that arise PRIOR to mortgagor’s acquisition of title

118
Q

Priority of interests during foreclosure

A

Priority among mortgages generally determined by chronological order due to recording requirements, but it can be changed if

(1) failing to record
(2) subordination agreements
(3) PMM
(4) modification of senior mortgage
(5) Subrogation

(3) Two PMMs - Seller’s mortgage has priority over third party’s mortgage

119
Q

Proceeds of sale - priority of who gets funds

A

(1) expenses of sale, atty’s fees, court costs
(2) principal and accrued interest on foreclosed loan
(3) junior interests in order of priority
(4) mortgagor

120
Q

Water courses - Riparian Doctrine - Reasonable Use Theory

A

Water belongs to those who own the land bordering the watercourse

Follows reasonable use doctrine - riparians share the right of reasonable use. Look at alteration of flow, pollution, purpose of use, extent of use, destination of water taken to determine if unreasonable

121
Q

Riparian Doctrine - Natural vs. artifical use theory

A

Natural uses prevail over artifical uses

122
Q

Riparian Doctrine - Prior Appropriation Doctrine

A

Individuals acquire rights by actual use

123
Q

Groundwater doctrines

A

Absolute ownership - can take all the water you want
Reasonable Use - like absolute, but exporting cannot harm other owners who have same rights
Appropriative rights - Priority of use (not ownership) is determinative
Restatement Approach - can pump unless it harms neighbors or exceeds share

124
Q

Surface waters

A

Anyone can grab it - just know the theories below

natural flow theory - cannot alter natural drainage patterns
common enemy theory - can take any protective measure to get rid of water
Reasonable use theory - balance utility of use against gravity of harm

125
Q

Rights in airspace

A

Not exclusive, but entitled to freedom of excess noise

126
Q

Zoning restrictions

A

Can enact to protect health, morals, safety, welfare of citizens.

CANNOT enact if no reasonable relationship to these elements above, too restrictive, discriminatory

127
Q

Zoning - Noncomforing use

A

Passage of a zoning where actor does not conform does not have to eliminate at once - amortization is the gradual elimination of such use

128
Q

Zoning - Special use permit

A

Need permit for proper intended use

129
Q

Zoning - Variance

A

Departure from zoning ordiance

130
Q

What happens to the itnerests in a foreclosure

A

foreclosure wipes out all junior mortgages (those that came after the foreclosing party), but does not wipe out senior mortgages.

131
Q

Shelter Rule

A

once BFP enters, subsequent transferees get protection regardless of their notice.

132
Q

Bonafide Purchaser

A

(1) purchaser
(2) without notice
(3) pays valuable consideration

133
Q

First in time notice for conveyance

A

Common law theory - whoever got conveyance first wins regardless of notice or recordation. This is the default rule if the subsequent purchaser is NOT a BFP

134
Q

Equitable Conversion

A

Once contract to sell is signed, purchaser is considered owner of REAL PROPERTY, seller’s right in proceeds considered PERSONAL PROPERTY

135
Q

Tract index

A

reveal all recorded deeds - even wild deeds where there are gaps

136
Q

Grantor-grantee index system

A

Only records interested granted by the first owner and down the line - so if first owner never recorded then you’d never find the subsequent conveyancs and not have record notice.