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- Claims of demands that our government is obligated to enforce
- Not revocable - cannot be cancelled
-Enduring - doesn't fade away with time
Rights
Derive primarily from the Bill of Rights and other amendments of the U.S. Constitution
Personal Rights
Derive from ancient times (tradition and custom), both tangible and intangible. Include possession, use (enjoyment), and disposition.
Property Rights
Rights in land and its permanent structures
Real Property
The rest of the objects that are moveable or isn't real estate
Personal Property
Used to be personal property but becomes part of the real property
Fixture
-Intentions of the parties (most important)
-Manner of Attachment
-Manner of adaptation (character of articles ex. custom design)
-Relation of the parties (spec. trade fixtures)
Basic principles when there is a dispute over fixtures
- total bundle of rights
1. Right to use the property
2. Possess to exclusion of others
3. Dispose it
Fee Simple Absolute
have the bundle of rights so long as a certain condition or event does not occur
Fee Simple Conditional
The rights to revert to the grantor if the condition is not met.
Reverter
Estate held until the grantor passes away. Once death incurs the property left becomes the remainder's estate
Life Estate
Possessory Interests are called
Estates
Judicially enforced life estate
Legal life estate
1. Rights to use
2. Possess to exclusion of others
3. Cannot dispose it
Nonpossessory Interests
Leasehold interest for a specific period of time
Tenancy for years
Tenant will stay until either landlord or tenant gives notice
Tenancy at will
Tenant is supposed to vacate but does not, but continues to pay rent, and the land lord accepts it.
Tenancy at sufferance
If the landlord does not accept a tenants rent after they are supposed to vacate property.
Holdover
Limited in time, have no meaningful right of disposition because they are limited in time. They are not titled interests.
Leasehold Interest
The bundle of rights possessed by the landlord in a leased property, made up promarily of the right to receive rental payments during the lease term and ultimately to repossess the property at the end of the lease term.
Leased Fee Estate
Ownership
1. Fee Simple
2. Fee Conditional
3. Life Estate

Non Ownership
1. Leases
-Possess and use it, can't sell it
2. Restrictive Covenants
3. Liens
Possessory Estates
The right to use real estate for a specific purpose

Rights "Run with the land"
Easements
Involves a relationship between two parcels of land.
-Need two parcels
Easements appurtenant
Benefits from easement
Dominant parcel
Constrained or diminished by the easement.
Servient Parcel
Allowing access to something on the servient parcel.
Affirmative easement
Allows no intrusion onto the servient parcel.
Negative easement
Right to use land for a specific, limited purpose unrelated to any adjacent parcel.
- Doesn't involve two adjacent parcels.
- No dominant parcel
- Can be granted to any entity
- Usually for a time limit
- Sometimes called commercial easements
- Noncommercial: fishing, hunting, boating, snowblowing, etc.
Easements in gross
Has exclusive rights and can exclude others from using the land or let in who you want.
Exclusive Commercial Easement
Can decide who can or cannot also use the land
Nonexclusive Commercial Easement
Permission to use the land but can also be revoked. Specific limited use.
- Not a right
- Can be revoked at any time
- Can be granted orally
Licenses
Impose limits on the uses of land
- Grantor imposes the restrictions and enforces them.
- To control the use of the property beyond their ownership
- Runs with the land
- Subdivisions - group of owners enforce restrictions.
Restrictive Covenants
Interest in real property that serves as security for an obligation.
Lien
Arises out of actions unrelated to ownership of the property.
- Arises from court-judgment
General Lien
Works on real estate but doesn't pay him (specific)
Mechanics' Liens
Is paid out 100 cents on the dollar until it is all paid out.
Lien Priority
Prioritized depending on the date they were filed.
1. Taxes
2. Mortgages and Mechanics (race to the record books)
3. General Liens
Order of Lien Payment
Actually owning the property
Direct ownership
Own real estate through an entity
Indirect Ownership
More than 1 direct owner
Co-Ownership Direct Investment
"Normal" form where each co-owner has full rights.
- Each co-owner has undivided interest
- Right to use all of it
- When one dies, their heirs gain interest
Tenancy in common
Undivided interest but when one owner dies, the other owners acquire his interest
- right of survivorship
Joint tenancy
Husband and wife

Basically a joint tenancy with a spouse
Tenancy by the entirity
- Indirect co-ownership
- Buy share or interest in it
- One Mortgage
Coop
- Everyone has own mortgage
- Fee simple ownership and a tenancy in common for each owner.
Condo
Fee simple sliced up by time
Time Share