Intentionally exercising dominion or control over a chattel that seriously interferes with the owner's rights.
What is conversion?
100
Having the desire or purpose to achieve a result.
What is intent?
100
An owner of this property interest has the present right to possess and use the property as well as the unrestricted right to sell it, gift it, devise it or leave it to heirs via intestate inheritance.
What is fee simple absolute?
100
The concept that title to property is not absolute, but may be good against one person and not another who has a superior claim to the property.
What is relativity of title?
100
Details in a case that are crucial to the court's decision.
What are legally significant facts?
200
The right of a merchant to detain a customer they believe is stealing.
What is the "Shopkeepers Privilege"?
200
Type of fault usually invoked when a defendant exercises a conscious disregard of a high risk of a particular type of harm.
What is recklessness?
200
A present estate where the owner has no right to determine who owns the property upon her death.
What is a life estate?
200
A possessor's intention to appropriate and use land as his own to the exclusion of all others.
What is a claim of right?
200
Issues that deal with court rules, rather than the nuances of the law are labeled as this.
What are procedural issues?
300
Defenses to intentional torts.
What are consent, self-defense/ defense of others, defense of property, & necessity?
300
The general duty that one must exercise to foreseeable plaintiffs.
What is reasonable care with regard to foreseeable risks of harm?
300
A future interest that takes effect either upon the happening of an event that is not certain to occur or upon the naming of a person who can not be ascertained at the time of the initial conveyance.
What is a contingent remainder?
300
When a joint tenant dies, her property interest is immediately transferred to the remaining joint tenant.
What is the right of survivorship?
300
Outlining, creating flashcards, and taking practice exams are examples of this type of learning.
What is active learning?
400
This defense is a qualified privilege, allowing a plaintiff to still recover for damage to their property.
What is private necessity?
400
Liability in the absence of fault.
What is strict liability?
400
The present interests that terminate at the happening of a specific event, other than the death of the current owner.
What are defeasible fees?
(Bonus question (100 pts. each): name them).
400
A lawsuit seeking a division of commonly held property.
What is partition?
400
This term is not only a characteristic of a complete and accurate legal rule, but it is also a general quality you should strive for in all legal writing.
What is precision?
500
An unreasonable, nontrespassory invasion of another's interest in the private use and enjoyment of land.
What is private nuisance?
500
An employee's deviation for personal reasons that is nonetheless seen as sufficiently related to employment.
What is a detour?
500
Judicial preference for construction of conveyance language that will avoid recognition of a future interest, especially where a present possessor would lose title to the future interest holder.
What is the presumption against forfeitures?
500
The wrongful dispossession of a co-tenant, which creates liability for reasonable rent amongst the possessory tenants.
What is an ouster?
500
This term describes what happens when you reach a point of learning where you have the ability to complete a task (eg. writing an essay exam answer) without thinking about the low level details involved with the task.