Present Interests

Question 1

Fee simple absolute

Answer 1

“To A and A’s heirs”

No strings attached, no future interest at all

Goes on forever

Question 2

Fee tail

Answer 2

Keep the property in the bloodline

“To the heirs of A’s body”

Question 3

Defeasible Fee

Answer 3

Fee that can last forever, put can come to an end if something happens in the future

Fee simple determinable, Fee simple subject to condition subsequent, Fee simple subject to executory limition

Question 4

Fee simple determinable

Answer 4

“so long as”

If the grantee fails to meet the conditions, it goes back to the O

Question 5

Fee simple subject to a condition subsequent

Answer 5

Durational language that sets out that the devisee can come back in and take (right of re-entry)

Not an automatic end

Question 6

Fee simple subject to executory limitation

Answer 6

O to A, if…….., then to B

Future interest in a third party if the condition is violated