Deck 39: Nature of Real Property

Question 1

A is the largest and most complete right that one may possess in property. ​

A)remainder estate
B)communal estate
C)life estate
D)fee simple estate

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Dirt deposited along the boundary of real property is not added to it.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Improvements made by a residential tenant are generally presumed not to be fixtures.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A chain retail store opening for business in a shopping complex is an example of a .

A)easement
B)license
C)reversion
D)community property

Question 5

The automatic right of the remaining surviving owner(s)to own the entire property free of any interest of a deceased owner is called .

A)joint tenancy
B)possession
C)suretyship
D)survivorship

Question 6

Which of the following is considered personal property?

A)non-navigable river
B)soybeans growing in a field
C)apple trees
D)vineyard

Question 7

A occurs when two or more people own property such that when one owner dies, that owner's interest in the property passes to a person named in the deceased's will. ​

A)tenancy by default
B)tenancy in common
C)tenancy by the entirety
D)public tenancy

Question 8

List consequences of the different ways in which two or more persons may own property.

Question 9

​ consists of land, including the actual soil, and all permanent attachments to the land, such as fences, walls, and other additions.

A)Fictitious property
B)Movable property
C)Intangible property
D)Real property

Question 10

Ownership of an estate for the duration of one's life is called a term for years. ​

Question 11

Personal property attached to land or a building that becomes a part of the land is known as a(n). ​

A)fixture
B)installment
C)tenant
D)attachment

Question 12

Nine states in the U.S.A. recognize a form of ownership called community property. ​

Question 13

A color of title arises from some defective document purporting to be a deed or a will. ​

Question 14

​ An individual may acquire title to real property by occupying the land owned by another for a period fixed by statute only with the permission of the original owner.

Question 15

An easement gives an exclusive right to possession. ​

Question 16

Each tenant in common owns an undivided fractional interest in the land.

Question 17

Minerals under the soil and the waters on it are not considered real property. ​

Question 18

Which of the following best describes partition? ​

A)A tenancy in entirety ended due to incapacity of one or more tenants
B)A joint tenancy destroyed by the death of two or more owners
C)A joint tenancy destroyed by one joint tenant suing for a division of the property
D)A tenancy in common ended by the death of one or more owners

Question 19

A fee simple owner of property, whether real or personal, only has the right to possess the property for a limited time.

Question 20

Crops such as clovers and grasses are classified as real property until severed from a land. ​