W1 VOCAB

Question 1

natural resources, such as oil and natural gas that do not stay in one place, even when they are still under the ground.

Answer 1

Fugitive Minerals

Question 2

A common-law doctrine that gives landowners unlimited rights to extract resources from their land.

Answer 2

Rule of Capture

Question 3

Pro rata

Answer 3

In proportion.

Question 4

• an action for money damages for defendants indirect or consequential injury to plaintiff’s chattels or land resulting from the defendants wrongful act

Answer 4

Trespass on the case

Question 5

• action to recover the value of chattel wrongfully taken or retained by the defendant.

Answer 5

Trover

Question 6

• actions to recover the possession of chattels wrongfully taken from plaintiff’s possession by the defendant

Answer 6

Replevin and detinue

Question 7

action to recover the possession of the plaintiff’s real property.

Answer 7

Ejectment

Question 8

Title

Answer 8

The legal basis of property ownership, which includes the right to control and dispose of the property.

Question 9

Deed

Answer 9

A written instrument transferring title to or interest in land.

Question 10

Chattel

Answer 10

A tangible, movable item.

Question 11

A cause of action in tort, in which the defendant intentionally asserts dominion over the plaintiff’s property, to the exclusion of the plaintiff’s rights.

Answer 11

Conversion

Question 12

..a Latintermthat means “with the intention to return.” … Under this concept, any animal that strayed away from the owner’spropertyonto publiclandcannot be killed and taken without any compensation to the original caretaker.

Answer 12

Animus revertendi