Exam 8: Real and Personal Property

Title recordings provide:

RDNT runs an assisted care living facility for elderly and disabled persons. It applied to the city of Bloomington, Minnesota, to expand the number of units at the facility. That would increase the number of personnel at the facility by eight percent. Some neighbors objected to the expansion, contending traffic would be too heavy because of the additional staff at the facility. The zoning board and the city council denied the construction permit. The Minnesota high court held that the city:

A hostile user of another person's land may come to own the property or an easement through:

Fact Pattern 8-1 Jill recently inherited money from her old aunt Maude. Jill decided to buy beach-front property in Beaufort, South Carolina. Jill's new property consists of 3 acres of land, with direct access to the ocean. When she bought the land there is no home on it, but she wants to build a beach home in the future. A year after she bought the lovely lot, the city of Beaufort rezones the land, prohibiting any building so that other residents can enjoy the view. -Refer to Fact Pattern 8-1. Suppose that when Jill purchases her land there is a ruin of an old pre-Civil War Episcopal Church on the property. The ruin is best described as:

Your next door neighbor plays his stereo very loud at 3 am. He ignores your repeated requests for quiet and keeps up this habit. You are most likely to win a suit for the tort of:

When commercial rent includes charges for lighting, cleaning, parking lot maintenance, etc it is referred to as:

Once an easement is granted:

Chattel is the traditional term for:

When intellectual property, such as copyrights, patents, trade secrets or trademarks, is taken by others without permission, there is a tort of:

A special warranty deed is:

Furniture, since it is movable, is an example of:

The law of torts recognizes two kinds of nuisances, these are:

Limitations or requirements about the use of property are called:

A life estate grants a person:

A profit is:

A condominium is:

Chattel is the traditional term for:

Traditionally, personal property was referred to as:

The title to land is:

A person may use which of the following as a defense to the tort of trespass on land: