Real Property (Final)

Question 1

Land Contract Requirement

Answer 1

• Writing
• Parties identified
• Signed by one to be bound
• Describes land
• States Consideration

Question 2

Warranty Deed

Answer 2

• Seisin
• Right to Convey
• Encumbrances
• Title
• Quiet Enjoyment
• Further assurances

Question 3

Constructive eviction

Answer 3

• Virtually uninhabitable
• Substantial interference with use
• Notice
• LL doesn’t respond
• T actually moves out

Question 4

Warranty of Habitability

Answer 4

• Terminate & move; or
• Repair and deduct; or
• Pay reduced rent & sue

Question 5

Creation of Easement

Answer 5

{PING}
Prescription
-Actual use
-Open & Notorious
-Hostile (no consent)
-Statutory period
Implication
-Originally one parcel
-Severed
-Use existed prior to severance
-Reasonably necessary
Necessity
-Common ownership
-Strictly necessary
-No prior use required
Grant
-Express
Estoppel

Question 6

Termination of Easement

Answer 6

{END CRAMP}

• Estoppel (reliance)
• Necessity ends
• Destruction
• Condemnation of property
• Release
• Abandonment with action
• Merger of parcels
• Prescription (in reverse)

Question 7

Burden runs with Land (Covenant)

Answer 7

{WITHN}

• Writing
• Intent
• Touches and Concerns Land
• Horizontal and Vertical Privity
• Notice

Question 8

Benefit Runs with Land (Covenant)

Answer 8

{WITV}

• Writing
• Intent
• Touches and Concerns Land
• Vertical privity

Question 9

Implied reciprocal servitude

Answer 9

• Common plan or scheme
• Notice
• Writing not required

Question 10

Termination of covenants & Equitable servitudes

Answer 10

• Agreement
• Abandonment
• Changed Conditions