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46 Cards in this Set
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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
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Derive primarily from the Bill of Rights and other amendments of the U.S. Constitution
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Personal Rights
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Derive from ancient times (tradition and custom), both tangible and intangible. Include possession, use (enjoyment), and disposition.
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Property Rights
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Rights in land and its permanent structures
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Real Property
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The rest of the objects that are moveable or isn't real estate
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Personal Property
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Used to be personal property but becomes part of the real property
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Fixture
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-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
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- total bundle of rights
1. Right to use the property 2. Possess to exclusion of others 3. Dispose it |
Fee Simple Absolute
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have the bundle of rights so long as a certain condition or event does not occur
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Fee Simple Conditional
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The rights to revert to the grantor if the condition is not met.
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Reverter
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Estate held until the grantor passes away. Once death incurs the property left becomes the remainder's estate
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Life Estate
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Possessory Interests are called
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Estates
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Judicially enforced life estate
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Legal life estate
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1. Rights to use
2. Possess to exclusion of others 3. Cannot dispose it |
Nonpossessory Interests
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Leasehold interest for a specific period of time
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Tenancy for years
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Tenant will stay until either landlord or tenant gives notice
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Tenancy at will
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Tenant is supposed to vacate but does not, but continues to pay rent, and the land lord accepts it.
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Tenancy at sufferance
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If the landlord does not accept a tenants rent after they are supposed to vacate property.
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Holdover
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Limited in time, have no meaningful right of disposition because they are limited in time. They are not titled interests.
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Leasehold Interest
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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.
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Leased Fee Estate
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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
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The right to use real estate for a specific purpose
Rights "Run with the land" |
Easements
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Involves a relationship between two parcels of land.
-Need two parcels |
Easements appurtenant
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Benefits from easement
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Dominant parcel
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Constrained or diminished by the easement.
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Servient Parcel
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Allowing access to something on the servient parcel.
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Affirmative easement
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Allows no intrusion onto the servient parcel.
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Negative easement
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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
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Has exclusive rights and can exclude others from using the land or let in who you want.
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Exclusive Commercial Easement
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Can decide who can or cannot also use the land
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Nonexclusive Commercial Easement
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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
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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
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Interest in real property that serves as security for an obligation.
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Lien
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Arises out of actions unrelated to ownership of the property.
- Arises from court-judgment |
General Lien
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Works on real estate but doesn't pay him (specific)
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Mechanics' Liens
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Is paid out 100 cents on the dollar until it is all paid out.
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Lien Priority
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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
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Actually owning the property
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Direct ownership
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Own real estate through an entity
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Indirect Ownership
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More than 1 direct owner
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Co-Ownership Direct Investment
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"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
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Undivided interest but when one owner dies, the other owners acquire his interest
- right of survivorship |
Joint tenancy
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Husband and wife
Basically a joint tenancy with a spouse |
Tenancy by the entirity
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- Indirect co-ownership
- Buy share or interest in it - One Mortgage |
Coop
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- Everyone has own mortgage
- Fee simple ownership and a tenancy in common for each owner. |
Condo
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Fee simple sliced up by time
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Time Share
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