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Unit Quiz 4 Flashcards

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  1. The right of a government body to take ownership of real estate for public use is called

A. Escheat
B. Eminent domain
C. condemnation
D. police power

A

A. Eminent domain

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  1. Only who has ownership rights of real estate that could continue forever and which provide that no other person can claim to be the owner or have any ownership control over the property has

A. Fee simple interest
B. life estate
C. determinable fee
D. condition subsequent

A

A. Fee simple interest

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  1. A woman deeded to convey ownership of a lot to a hospital “so long as it is used for hospital purposes”. After completion of the gift the hospital will own

A. Fee simple absolutely estate
B. license
C. fee simple determinable
D. a leasehold estate

A

C. Fee simple determinable

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  1. Your attorney explains that your neighbor real estate includes an easement a pertinent to giving them the right to drive across your property. Your property is the

A. Leasehold interest
B. dominant tenant
C. servient tenant
D. license property

A

C. Servient tenant

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  1. A license is an example of a

A. easement appurtenance
B. encroachment
C. personal privilege
D. restriction

A

D. Restriction

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  1. An easement appurtenant

A. Terminates with the sale of the property
B. is a right of way for the utility company
C. is revocable
D. runs with the land

A

D. Runs With the land

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  1. Property on Main Street that was formally a retail store will become the site of the new City Hall, made possible by the government’s power of

A. Escheat
B. Possibility of reverter
C. eminent domain
D. taxation

A

C. Eminent domain

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  1. Which of the following is not an example of governmental powers?

A. Remainder
B. police power
C. eminent domain
D. taxation

A

A. Remainder

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  1. A property owner who has legal right to use the neighborhoods land holds a

A. Estate in land
B. easement
C. police power
D. encroachment

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B. Easement

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  1. Which of the following is a legal life estate?

A. Leasehold
B. fee simple absolute
C. homestead
D. determinable fee

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C. Homestead

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  1. And owner conveys ownership of his residence to his church but reserves for himself a life estate and the residence. The future interest held by the church is a

A. pure autre vie
B. remainder
C. reversion
D. leasehold

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B. Remainder

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  1. And owner has a fence on his property by mistake, the fence remains 1 foot over the lot line onto my neighbors property. The fence is an example of

A. license
B. encroachment
C. easement by necessity
D. easement by prescription

A

B. Encroachment

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  1. A homeowner may be allowed a certain protection from judgments of creditors as a result of the states

A. Littoral rights
B. rights courtesy rights
C. homestead rights
D. dower rights

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C. Homestead rights

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  1. A person has permission from the property owner to hike on the owners property during the autumn months. The hiker has an

A. easement by necessity
B. Easement by condemnation
C. Riparian rights
D. a license

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D. A license

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  1. A homestead is a legal life estate in reAl estate that is

A. leased by renters
B. occupied as a family home
C. used as a vacation home
D. a secondary residence

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B. Occupied as a family home

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  1. Because the homeowner failed to pay the real estate tax on time, the taxing authority imposed a claim against the homeowners property. This claim is known as a

A. deed restriction
B. lien
C. easement
D. revisionary interest

A

B. Lien

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  1. The type of easement that is a right of way for utility companies powerlines is a easement

A. Easement in gross
B. easement by necessity
C. easement by prescription
D. nonassignable easement

A

A. Easement in gross

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  1. The process by which government takes control of property after the owner dies without a will or lawful Heirs is

A. Escheat
B. Lis pendant
C. Condemnation
D. Taxation

A

A. Escheat

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  1. A land owner has property that is landlocked. This owners property will probably be granted an easement by ?

A. Easement by necessity
B. Easement in gross
C. easement by prescription
D. easement by condemnation

A

A. Easement by necessity

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  1. All of the following will terminate and easement except

A. when the need no longer exist
B. nonuse of the prescriptive easement
C. abandonment of the easement
D. release of the right of easement to the dominant tenant

A

D. Release of the right of easement to the dominant tenant

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