Exam 8: Real and Personal Property

The owner of real property may refuse to pass ownership on after death,thereby controlling property "from the grave."

The power to take private property for public use without consent of the owner is:

Titles and deeds are usually put in the public record.

A deed is:

Real property includes:

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

In Campisi v.Acme Markets,Campisi was injured when shopping at Acme when she tripped over the white guide cane of a blind employee of Acme.She sued Acme for:

One who possesses lands by any right or title is referred to as a(n):

A person's home is part of their personal property.

Which of the following is not real property:

Unlike real property,personal property:

A covenant is:

If one has the right to occupy a piece of property until their death,at which point title to the property passes to heirs who have been named by the owner of the property,there is a:

Greenbeans runs a big pig farm.Once the farm was far from town,but the town has grown and the farm is now many houses have been built near it.The stink from the farm might be a public nuisance.

In Smith v.Kulig,Smith was killed when visiting his friend who rented an apartment from Kulig,when the fire escape at the back of the building collapsed under Smith,the courts held that:

If the government takes land from a private owner without the consent of the owner it is exercising the right of:

A tenant of leased property is said to have a possessory estate.

The general rule is that if land-use regulation causes a reduction in value of property,the government need not compensate the property owner unless almost all value is lost.

In most jurisdictions,a good-faith purchaser who believes a seller had a right to sell property is liable for conversion if the property was bought from a thief.

Americans buying land in Mexico find that the process is almost identical to that they know from the United States.