Exam 8: Real and Personal Property

If your neighbor takes your car,without permission,uses it for a day,and then returns it to you with no damage,there has been a trespass to personal property.

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 Grady never asked Jill for her permission to fish on her land.He fishes there whenever he wants.It is possible that if Jill doesn't tell him to "get lost," after many years:

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

The ____________ requires that governments must pay compensation when taking private land without the landowner's consent.

In Moran v.Sims,where the house Sims built was surrounded by land owned by Moran,and Sims sued for the right of access to his house,the courts held that Sims had a prescriptive easement.That is a form of:

A _____________ is an activity that substantially and unreasonably interferes with the use and enjoyment of someone's land.

Subsurface mineral rights:

In Kohl v.U.S. ,the Supreme Court stated that the right of eminent domain always was a right at common law.

A warranty deed promises good title to land being passed to another.

A life estate grants a person:

A binding obligation that goes with property when it is transferred to a new owner,who must abide by the obligation,is called a(n):

A _______________ is someone who has no right to occupy or use an estate and does so without permission.

The major difference between public nuisance and private nuisance is:

In Campisi v.Acme Markets,Campisi was injured when she tripped over the cane of a blind employee of the store.The appeals court held that the store was negligent for not warning customers of the employee and his cane.

A deed in which the seller or grantor warrants that the property is free of any liens or encumbrances unless they are revealed in the title is a(n):

A means by which owners of estates in land can make agreements that bind their successors is called a(n):

The person who can make all decisions with respect to a property in a trust is known as the:

The title to land is:

If there are _____________ found in a title during a title search the title is said to be clouded.

Because condominiums were a novel form of property,they had to be approved by statute because the common law could not recognize a new form of ownership.