Deck 32: Estates in Real Property

Question 1

What term describes personal property which is permanently attached to real property and becomes part of the real property?

A) Fee
B) Fixture
C) Estate
D) Defeasible estate

Answer 1

Fixture

Question 2

At common law, what estates were considered to be real property?

A) Freehold
B) Leasehold
C) All of the above
D) None of the above

Answer 2

Freehold

Question 3

What term describes the largest estate that one can own in land?

A) Fee
B) Fee absolute
C) Fee simple
D) All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Today, what words may be omitted in a deed creating a fee simple estate?

A) "And his heirs"
B) Apt words
C) All of the above
D) None of the above

Question 5

What term describes an estate restricting ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline?

A) Fee tail estate
B) Fee family estate
C) Fee bloodline estate
D) All of the above

Question 6

What is the origin of an estate restricting ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline?

A) King's order
B) Tradition
C) English common law
D) English statute

Question 7

In the feudal England, what did the word "fealty" mean?

A) Particular service
B) Payment
C) Allegiance
D) Social rank

Question 8

In the feudal England, what term described the service that required the tenant to plow the lord's land?

A) Cornage
B) Villeinage
C) Socage
D) Frank-almoign

Question 9

In the feudal England, what did the term "feoffor" mean?

A) Tenant
B) Knight
C) Landlord
D) Royalty

Question 10

In the feudal England, what did the word "esquire" mean?

A) Social rank
B) Profession
C) Title
D) None of the above

Question 11

In the feudal England, what term described the land that restricted ownership to men in the family line?

A) Estate tail esquire
B) Estate tail special
C) Estate tail male
D) Estate tail gentlemen

Question 12

What term describes a grantor's interest in a determinable fee estate?

A) Occasion of reverter
B) Possibility of reverter
C) Likelihood of reverter
D) Prospect of reverter

Question 13

What term describes an estate in real property that is capable of coming to an end automatically due to the happening of some event?

A) Fee
B) Fee simple determinable
C) Fee simple ending
D) Leasehold estate

Question 14

What is an example of a defeasible estate?

A) Fee simple determinable
B) Determinable fee
C) Fee simple subject to a condition subsequent
D) All of the above

Question 15

What term describes the owners of life estates?

A) Life tenants
B) Uninterrupted tenants
C) Occupying tenants
D) Perpetual tenants

Question 16

What is included in waste?

A) Destruction of premises
B) Alteration of premises
C) Deterioration of premises
D) All of the above

Question 17

What legal life estates may be created by the operation of law?

A) Rights of dower
B) Rights of curtesy
C) Both A and B
D) Estate pur autre vie

Question 18

What term describes an estate continuing for successive periods until one of the parties terminates it?

A) Week-to-week tenancy
B) Month-to-month tenancy
C) Periodic tenancy
D) All of the above

Question 19

What term describes an estate for an indefinite period?

A) Tenancy in perpetuity
B) Tenancy at will
C) Tenancy indefinite
D) All of the above

Question 20

What kind of tenancy is the one described "until the corn has been harvested"?

A) Tenancy with a condition
B) Tenancy for a season
C) Tenancy for years
D) Tenancy for a purpose

Question 21

Estates are divided into three groups.

Question 22

Usually, fixtures stay with noncommercial property when real estate is sold.

Question 23

The fee simple estate gives the owner absolute ownership.

Question 24

If the words "and his heirs" were omitted from the deed, the grantee received a fee simple absolute estate.

Question 25

In England, in the 13th century, a fee tail estate has been created by a king's order.

Question 26

The purpose of a fee tail estate was to keep the land in the family forever.

Question 27

In the early feudal period, a life estate could be transferred by a tenant without his lord's permission.

Question 28

In the feudal England, a payment called relief was the precursor of our modern estate tax.

Question 29

If the event that may terminate the estate never occurs, the determinable fee estate will be absolute.

Question 30

A fee simple determinable estate is a defeasible estate.

Question 31

When one holds property for the duration of the life of another person, it is known as a reminder interest.

Question 32

Life tenants are entitled to possession of the property.

Question 33

Tenancy at will is a type of a freehold estate.

Question 34

A tenant at sufferance continues to occupy the premises after his or her lease has expired.

Question 35

In tenancy for years, there is no stated ending date of the tenancy.

Question 36

The ground and anything permanently attached to it is called ________ property.

Question 37

The fee simple ________ estate is the largest estate that a person can own in land.

Question 38

Long ago, a fee________ estate was created by a deed containing the words "To (a person) and his heirs."

Question 39

If a certain family's bloodline became extinct, the fee ________ estate reverted to the original owner's line.

Question 40

In return for land, each tenant agreed to do for his lord a particular service called ________.

Question 41

If the event occurs, the ________ fee estate will come to an end.

Question 42

An estate that a person holds during the life of another person is called pur ________ vie estate.

Question 43

An estate limited in duration to the life of the owner is called a(n) ________ estate.

Question 44

When the tenant continues to occupy the premises after the expiration of his or her lease, this is called tenancy at ________.

Question 45

At common law and in most states today, ________ estates are treated as personal property rather than real property.

Question 46

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Fee

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 47

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Reversionary interest

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 48

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Estate

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 49

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Nominal

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 50

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Tenancy for years

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 51

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Apt words

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 52

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Defeasible estate

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 53

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Condition subsequent

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 54

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Leasehold estate

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 55

Match the terms with their descriptions:

-Fee tail estate

A) Estate that can be lost
B) Right to the future enjoyment of property that one originally owned
C) Ownership interests
D) Largest estate a person can own in land
E) Qualification that comes later
F) Estate for a definite or fixed period of time
G) Restricts ownership of real property to a particular family bloodline
H) Estate that is less than a freehold estate
I) Suitable words
J) In name only

Question 56

Identify a fee tail estate and its types. Explain the purpose of a fee tail estate and its place in the modern legal system.

Question 57

Define a life estate. Identify limitations on a life tenant's ownership and discuss them.

Question 58

Define a leasehold estate. Compare and contrast tenancy for years and tenancy at will.

Question 59

Brenda wants to grant her real estate to a church so that Brenda's premises will be used by the church to house visiting missionaries. Discuss what phrase should be put in the deed and what type of estate will be created as a result of this conveyance.

Question 60

James owns an orange farm, a log cabin, and a bungalow on the beach. He wants to lease the farm until the end of the harvesting of oranges and the log cabin - for an indefinite period. James does not want to lease his beach property for a long period of time because he likes to use it occasionally. Discuss how James can accomplish his goals with leasing his real property.