Unit 6: Transfer of Title

Question 1

The legal term for the transfer of title during the property owner’s lifetime

Answer 1

Voluntary alienation

Question 2

A document by which an owner of real estate conveys the right, title, or interest owned in the parcel of real estate to someone else

Answer 2

Deed

Question 3

Person who receives the property

Answer 3

Grantee

Question 4

Owner who transfers the property

Answer 4

Grantor

Question 5

Defines or explains the ownership to be enjoyed by the grantee “to have and to hold”

Answer 5

Habendum clause

Question 6

When a person dies without a valid will and the title to the real estate passes to the heirs identified in the state law of succession

Answer 6

Intestate