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The right of a government body to take ownership of real estate for public use is called...
answer
eminent domain
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One who has ownership rights of real estate that could continue forever and which provide that no other person can claim to be the owner of or have any ownership control over the property has...
answer
fee simple absolute
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The ownership of fee simple title to a vacant lot adjacent to a hospital decided to make a gift of the lot to the hospital. The deed conveyed ownership of the lot to the hospital "so long as it is used for hospital purposes." After completion of the gift, the hospital will own...
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a fee simple determinable
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Your neighbors use your driveway to reach their garage on their property. Your attorney explains that ownership of the neighbors' real estate includes an easement appurtenant giving them the driveway right. Your property is...
a) the leasehold interest
b) the dominant tenement
c) the servient tenement
d) the license property
a) the leasehold interest
b) the dominant tenement
c) the servient tenement
d) the license property
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the servient tenement
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A license is an example of...
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a personal privilege
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An easement appurtenant...
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runs with the land
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A property on Main Street that was formerly a retail store will become the site of a new city hall, made possible by the government's power of...
answer
eminent domain
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Which of the following is NOT an example of governmental power?
a) remainder
b) police power
c) eminent domain
d) taxation
a) remainder
b) police power
c) eminent domain
d) taxation
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remainder
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A property owner who has the legal right to use a neighbor's land holds...
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an easement
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Which of the following is a legal life estate?
a) leasehold
b) fee simple absolute
c) homestead
d) determinable fee
a) leasehold
b) fee simple absolute
c) homestead
d) determinable fee
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homestead
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An owner conveys ownership of a residence to a church but reserves a life estate in the residence. The future interest held by the church is...
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a remainder
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The new owner of a property installs a fence on the property. By mistake, the fence extends one foot over the lot line onto a neighbor's property. The fence is an example of...
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an encroachment
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A homeowner may be allowed certain protection from judgments of creditors as a result of the state's...
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homestead rights
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A person has permission from a property owner to hike on the owner's property during the autumn months. The hiker has...
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a license
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A homestead is a legal life estate in real estate that is...
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occupied as the family home
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Because a homeowner failed to pay the real estate taxes on time, the taxing authority imposed a claim against the homeowner's property. This claim is known as a(n)...
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a lien
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The type of easement that is a right-of-way for a utility company's power lines is a(n)...
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and easement in gross
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The process by which government takes control of a property after the owner dies without a will or lawful heirs is...
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escheat
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A landowner has divided a large parcel of land into smaller parcels and has recently sold a tract near a nature preserve that is landlocked and cannot be entered except through one of the other tracts. The byer of that property will probably be granted what type of easement by court action?
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easement by necessity
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All of the following will terminate an easement EXCEPT
a) when the need no longer exists
b) nonuse of a perspective easement
c) abandonment of easement
d) release of the right of easement to the dominant tenement
a) when the need no longer exists
b) nonuse of a perspective easement
c) abandonment of easement
d) release of the right of easement to the dominant tenement
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release of the right of easement to the dominant tenement
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