Easements
Any right or privilege which belongs to and passes with the land:
A. Easement
B. Estoppel
C. Appurtenence
D. Dominant teniment
What is C, Appurtenence
A written instrument, usually under seal, which contains an agreement to transfer some property interest from a grantor to a grantee
A. Deed
B. Trust
C. Note
D. Eminent domain
What is A, deed?
A voluntary, specific lien is:
A. Tax assessment
B. Mechanic's lien
C. Mortgage
D. Judgement lien
What is C, mortgage?
A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land
A. Lot and Block
B. Metes and Bounds
C. Rectangular Survey
D. Government Survey
What is B, metes and bounds?
The rights of an owner to possess, control, enjoy, sell, lease, mortgage, and dispose of the property:
A. Chain of title
B. Bundle of rights
C. Curtesy
D. Covenant of quiet enjoyment
What is B, bundle of rights?
A right to limited use or enjoyment by one or more persons in the land of another:
A. Riparian
B. Easement
C. Devise
D. Defeasible
What is B, easement?
Retention of possession without the consent of the landlord after the lease has expired; also referred to as a tenancy at sufferance.
A. Estate at will
B. Estate at sufferance
C. Estate for years
D. Estate in fee
What is B, estate at sufferance?
The charge upon the land of a debtor, resulting from the decree of the court, entered into the judgement docket:
A. Tax assessment
B. Mechanic's lien
C. Mortgage
D. Judgement lien
What is D, judgement lien?
A method of land description frequently used after the land has been subdivided; also referred to as the recorded plat method.
A. Lot and Block
B. Metes and Bounds
C. Rectangular Survey
D. Government Survey
What is A, lot and block?
Ownership with conditional restrictions, which, if broken, can result in title to the property reverting back to the grantor or his heirs:
A. Defeasance clause
B. Devise
C. Deficiency judgement
D. Defeasible fee simple
What is D, defeasible fee simple?
The tract of land in an easement appurtenant which benefits from the easement:
A. Estate for years
B. Curtesy
C. Estate in fee
D. Dominant estate
What is D, dominant estate?
A leasehold, which is automatically renewed for the same term as in the original lease. Notice needed to terminate.
A. Estate at sufferance
B. Estate for years
C. Estate from period to period
D. Estate in fee
What is C, estate from period to period?
A notice filed for the purpose of serving constructive notice that title, or some matter involving particular real property, is in litigation:
A. Lis pendens
B. Life pur autre vie
C. Lawsuit
D. Life estate
What is A, lis pendens?
A 6-by-6 mile area containing 36 sections each 1 mile square. A division of land in the rectangular survey method of land description:
A. Plat
B. Plottage
C. Section
D. Township
What is D, township?
An occupation of space for an indefinite period, which can be terminated by either the lessor or lessee at any time.
A. Estate at sufferance
B. Estate at will
C. Estate from period to period
D. Estate in fee
What is B, estate at will?
A personal right to use the land of another:
A. Encumbrance
B. Easement in gross
C. Escheat
D. Estate at will
What is B, easement in gross?
The maximum possible estate one can possess in real property:
A. Estate in fee
B. Estate for years
C. Estate from period to period
D. Estate at will
What is A, estate in fee?
An encumbrance placed on property through some willful act of the owner:
A. Mechanic's lien
B. Voluntary lien
C. Mortgage lien
D. Lis pendens
What is B, voluntary lien.
A map showing the division of land into lots and blocks:
A. Plot
B. Plop
C. Plottage
D. Plat
What is D, plat?
An estate which has been created to exist until the occurrence or non-occurrence of a particular event.
A. Fee simple determinable
B. Fee simple express
C. Fee simple exclusive
D. Fee simple absolute
Any interest in, or claim on, the land of another, which in some manner burdens or diminishes the value of the property:
A. Effective age
B. Estate at sufferance
C. Easement in gross
D. Encumbrance
What is D, encumbrance?
The maximum possible estate one can possess in real property is also known as:
A. Fee simple determinable
B. Fee simple express
C. Fee simple exclusive
D. Fee simple absolute
What is D, fee simple absolute?
Most local governments levy a/an __________ tax on a property:
A. Emminent domain
B. Estate
C. Ad valorem
D. Advertisement
What is C, ad valorem?
In metes and bounds, the legal description is based on a starting point known as a POB or:
A. Piece of Baloney
B. Precinct of Beginning
C. Point of Beginning
D. Pile of Bananas
What is C, point of beginning?
Ownership in an estate which continues for an indefinite period of time:
A. Less than freehold estate
B. Joint tenancy
C. Freehold estate
D. Life estate
What is C, freehold estate?