Property, Real Property Flashcards

1
Q
  1. Property
  2. What is property title?
  3. Rights individual has with property
A
  1. relationship between a person and an object and the individuals rights
  2. Ownership of property
    use, sell, tax, fix, store, lend, rent
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Personal Property (2)

A

Choses in action
Choses in possession (Chattels)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Choses in action

A

right to sue of some sort

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Choses in possession (Chattels)

A

tangible, visible, movable, owner in possession of tangible unless there is agreement

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

What is affixation and describe the Reynolds V Ashbeon and Sons case ratio with it

A

Chattel becomes a fixture to property by implication of law, Converted to property when it is attached, even without consent of owner

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

5 factors to determine a chattle to be a fixture

A
  1. Nature of article
  2. mode of attachment (wire, nail, screw)
  3. circumstance was attached
  4. purpose to be served
  5. position of parties
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What is Severance not employee

A

process to make fixture a chattel again (remove reality property to chattel)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Bailment and examples

A

one person takes temporary possession of property that is owned by another. Title and possession split. Bailor must deliver property to bailee, chattel or intangible returned at end of bailment

examples, renting, storing, transporting

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Bailment to occur, need to be (2)
two examples with car

A

Directive delivery: deliver a car
Constructive delivery: hand over keys

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Consequences of bailment:
who has title
who has possession
who has liability

A

title of property always stays with bailor,
possession usually with bailee when leased unless agreement
bailee has liability (standard of care)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Sub-bail and does it require permission?

A

bailee transfers possession to someone else or industry and they need permission

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Intellectual Property - Choses in action

A

Claim one person has against another. Intangible right, right to sue.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

IP - Assignment

A

transfer of choses in action to another

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Intellectual property examples (5)

A

Copyright
patent
trademark
industrial design
Confidential information/trade secret

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Why are they called intellectual property and is it different than personal property theft?

A

Deal with ideas and creative work, if stolen and wrongly misused it still exists as original intent but now value diminished

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Intellectual property - Copyrights
- what is it?
- what act was created and length of protection
- What is protected and what is not
- Examples
- who creates it and does it need to be registered

A
  • protect right of creator’s works/ideas
  • Copyright Act and 50 years
  • protect expression, not idea itself
  • literary, music, computer programs, artistic etc
  • creation generates/creates it, no need to register
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

How does copyright work with ownership…what about companies

A

It is usually attached to original person, with companies it is attached to employer…even in pursuit of job

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Copyright infringement and what is rewarded, (2) if won in case

A

person tries to obtain a benefit by use of sale, reproduction or distribution of the original works
remedies for injuction and damages

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Intellectual property - Industrial Design and examples

A

Similar to copyright but now protect deigned industry products etc coke bottle

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Intellectual property - Trademarks
- what is a trademark
- What act protects it, if registered and how many year
- is it renewable?
- Tort of passing off?
- If objection, must provide….

A
  • term, symbol, design or combination that identifies specific business, company, service or product
  • Federal Trademark Act and 15 years
  • it is renewable
  • protects if trademark not registered or renewed
  • proof of damages and applicant confusion
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Intellectual property - Patent
- what does it protect
- what does it give the inventor right to do?
- what is the act, years, renewable?
- How something qualify for patent?
- what must be provided in application

A
  • protect idea, invention
  • sell, produce and profit from invention
  • Patent Act, 20 years, non-renewable
  • innovation is new, not disclosed in public anywhere in world, unique and distinguishable from other products
  • share information and research to construct the invention
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Intellectual property - Confidential information/trade secret
- protection from what courts
- What does it protect
- examples
- best way to avoid complications

A
  • Provincial courts
  • not property but info that can be used and stolen to benefit from
  • recipes, industry secrets, client lists
  • Put fiduciary status on others to sue if they break them
23
Q

Real Property

A

Land everything permanently attached to it. Minerals below, construction on and airspace above

24
Q

Real property: Zoning

A

real property under control of provincial statutes etc regulations, jurisdiction and land use

25
Q

Real Property and Feudalism

A

Pre-capitalism, Pyramid scheme and protection. King had all the land and people wanted to protect from viking and saw value in land. King couldn’t manage land by himself so pieced-off land to people who could help defend and battle. Exchange of land for services

26
Q

Time definition for Estates

A

maximum time away from the crown in terms of possession and right to transfer property to someone else by convenience of your will or by law

27
Q

Intestacy

A

Die without a will so property is transferred by law or what happens with it

28
Q

Standard of negligence

A

what a reasonable person would do

29
Q

Free hold estate: Fee Simple Estate

A

the estate in land that can represent greatest interest a person can own for land, make changes, and closest to complete ownership in English law

30
Q

Escheat

A

Reversion of land to the crown when a person in possession of the fee simple dies without a will or with no heirs

31
Q

Free hold estate: Life Estate

A

most extensive in time, freehold estate that may be held by a person other than the owner of the fee simple for a particular time, usually tenant themselves

32
Q

Why would you use a Life state

A

Want to use the land but transfer ownership, don’t trust the kids perhaps

33
Q

Life estate - Reversion

A

grantor of life estate reserves the balance of fee simple for himself and heirs, reverts to grantor

34
Q

Life estate - Remainder

A

land goes to a 3rd party after the life estate is up

35
Q

2 problems with Life estates: hard to…..

A
  1. market
  2. determine who does maintenance, repairs, land cleaning
36
Q

Not Free hold estate: Lease Hold Estate

A

specified for a limited time (agreed upon) and at end of term, land reverts back to original owner

37
Q

Own Land Concurrently -
1. Tenants in common (Personal Relationship)
2. what if one party wants to transfer 3. What if one partner dies

A
  1. special agreement, parties each hold an equal part of the property and split income evenly
  2. transfers: can do without consent
  3. dies: goes tot their heir, not other tenant
38
Q

Own Land Concurrently -
1. Joint Tenancy (Commercial Relationship) is right of
2. what if one partner dies

A
  1. Right of survivorship
    2.ownership transfers to other co-tenants and not according to bloodline or will
39
Q

Probate
1. when does this occur
2. what is the process

A
  1. when tenancy not joined
  2. carry out the will and fees based on percentage of property value
40
Q

Severance
1. what is this for?

A

End joint tenancy relationship and become tenants in common

41
Q

Condominium Act

A

granting of fee simple estate in individual units of a multiple unit building (high rises, apartments, duplex). Residential and commercial building

42
Q

Condos
- law definition
- what is the Unit title

A
  • multiple individual unit owners who have individual fee simple titles.
  • unit title covers the unit and % of the common elements owned by condominium corporation
43
Q

Condo: what does the fee simple title include?

A

ownership of drywall and inwards and a percentage of the property outside the unit etc sidewalks, driveway, pools, hallways

44
Q

How does condominium corporation maintain common elements and what is a Condo Reserve Fund?

A

Charges a condominium fee (rent) and reserve fund is for damages and capital replacement

45
Q

Easement

A

right enjoyed by one land owner over the land of another purpose, not ownership or usage

46
Q

Easement is enforced by contract, how do you obtain this, what is required? What happens when it is established?

A

Dominant tenement (piece of land that benefits from easement) and a servant tenement (land subject to easement), once established it binds subsequent owners and runs with property

47
Q
  1. Easements and Right of Way
  2. Rights and obligations:
A
  1. able to cross over someone’s land
  2. Passerby cannot stay on part of the land, build, obstruct or leave something behind, no one can interfere with the path
48
Q

Prescriptive Easement and duration in MB

A

land owner requires easement but without grant or contract. Individual had habitually exercised right over the land for long time and it could have been granted easement. MB is 20 years

49
Q

Statutory Easement

A

hydro/phone lines have these kinds of easements to grant construction

50
Q

Restrictive Covenant
1. which courts
2. what is it
3. how is it enforced

A
  1. equity courts
  2. preventing certain use of land etc building restrictions or property regulations
  3. enforced with injunction
51
Q
  • Mineral Rights in MB
  • What was put in place in 1890 for property’s
  • What is exception for property’s pre 1890
A
  • Any deposits of minerals or oil underneath surface, province is owner of it
  • exploration lease or mining lease from province
  • rights of minerals and oils stay with property
52
Q

Registry System (1700)

A

each transfer of land was recorded in public registry, purchaser can search (examine titles) of multiple particular parcels of the land

53
Q

Registry System - interest is registered vs unregistered

A

protected by statute, if unregistered the crown like own it (not common today)

54
Q

MB Land Title System
1. other name
2. What is it ?
3. How is it different than registry

A
  1. Torren System
  2. Each new transaction with land is submitted for registration and document is carefully examined before approval.
  3. Rather than looking at individual titles, it is real time grouped recorded data of ownership up-to-date