Exam 22: Interests in Land

An estate in fee simple may not be sold by a person who holds a life estate.

Where the roof of one person's home overhangs the lot line of the property of another person,a situation of possessory nuisance has been created.

The Crown ultimately holds all land in Canada and ownership by people is a mere form of tenancy.

To exit to the street,a third-floor condominium owner is most likely to have

A person who crosses another's land which surrounds his own may be said to have a prescriptive right of covenant.

Two distinct systems of registration of land interests exist in Canada,the Registry System and the Land Titles System.

The condominium corporation is responsible on its own for all of the following,except

A unit owner of a condominium

Brady acquired a block of land in fee simple under a Crown Patent.He divided the block into two parcels: Whiteacre and Blackacre.He kept Whiteacre,but granted Blackacre to Drucker for life,then to Evans.Brady died possessed of Whiteacre,leaving the land to Crader.Crader acquired Whiteacre in fee simple under Brady's will.

A residential water heater is a fixture in law.

Green owned a cottage lot which had frontage on a lake.He later granted a 5-metre wide right of way to Brown who owned a lot behind Green's property,to enable Brown to reach the lake to launch his power boat.The following year,Brown built a boathouse on the 5-metre wide strip in which to store his boat in the winter months.When Green discovered the boathouse a few months later,he wrote to Brown and requested that it be removed.When Brown refused,Green hired a bulldozer and pushed the boathouse off the land and into the lake.Which of the following statements are not true?

The __________ rests in the selected person on death of a life tenant.