Exam 4: Encumbrances Easements and Licenses

​ A property owner whose property is taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain is entitled to be paid:

An owner's property may be sold to governmental authorities for failure to pay real estate taxes.

The owner of parcel "A" grants to the owner of parcel "B" an easement to use a driveway located on parcel "A." The owner of parcel "B" sells parcel "B" to "X." The driveway easement:

Public real property is not subject to mechanic's and materialmen's liens.

A prescriptive easement, once created, can never be terminated.

Which of the following is not responsible for the cleanup costs of hazardous waste?

An easement may be lost by the merger of the dominant and the servient tenement.

An implied easement must be witnessed and notarized.

The termination of an easement when both the dominant and servient tenements are owned by the same person is known as:

A landlocked owner who acquires an easement over a neighbor's property to gain access to a public road is generally thought to own:

A trust deed is a public encumbrance.

Local governments do not have the right to take private property for public use.

Which of the following is not considered a legislative function of government?

The right to use real property for a special purpose such as a roadway is known as an easement.

An easement created by use of property without the permission of the owner is known as an implied easement.

The grantee of an appurtenant easement is the owner of the real property over which the easement is located.

The exercise of the power of eminent domain requires procedural due process.

Which of the following is generally thought not to be a public encumbrance?

Which of the following is not a public use that supports the exercise of the power of eminent domain?

A license must always be written but it is not required to be notarized.