Core real property rules and doctrines tested on the bar exam.
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- What is a fee simple absolute?
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An estate of potentially infinite duration with no conditions or limitations.- What is a fee simple determinable?
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A fee simple that ends automatically when a stated event occurs, using durational language like 'so long as'.- What future interest accompanies a fee simple determinable?
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Possibility of reverter, which returns the estate to the grantor automatically.- What is a fee simple subject to condition subsequent?
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A fee simple that may be cut short by the grantor if a stated condition occurs, using words like 'but if'.- What future interest accompanies a fee simple subject to condition subsequent?
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Right of entry (power of termination), which the grantor must affirmatively exercise.- What is a fee simple subject to executory limitation?
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A fee simple that automatically shifts to a third party, not the grantor, when a stated condition occurs.- What is a life estate?
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An estate that lasts for the duration of a person's life, then passes to another.- What is a life estate pur autre vie?
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A life estate measured by the life of someone other than the holder of the estate.- What is voluntary waste?
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Affirmative, intentional acts by a life tenant that damage the property's value.- What is permissive waste?
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A life tenant's failure to make reasonable repairs, allowing the property to deteriorate.- What is a reversion?
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The future interest kept by a grantor who conveys an estate smaller than what they own.- What is a vested remainder?
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A remainder created in an ascertained person with no condition precedent other than the natural end of the prior estate.- What is a contingent remainder?
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A remainder subject to a condition precedent, or given to an unascertained person.- What does the Rule Against Perpetuities require?
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An interest must vest, if at all, within 21 years after the death of a life in being at the interest's creation.- What are the four unities required to create a joint tenancy?
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Time, title, interest, and possession.
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