Core real property rules and doctrines tested on the bar exam.
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- What is a fee simple absolute?
- An estate of potentially infinite duration with no conditions or limitations.
- What is a fee simple determinable?
- 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?
- Possibility of reverter, which returns the estate to the grantor automatically.
- What is a fee simple subject to condition subsequent?
- 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?
- Right of entry (power of termination), which the grantor must affirmatively exercise.
- What is a fee simple subject to executory limitation?
- A fee simple that automatically shifts to a third party, not the grantor, when a stated condition occurs.
- What is a life estate?
- An estate that lasts for the duration of a person's life, then passes to another.
- What is a life estate pur autre vie?
- A life estate measured by the life of someone other than the holder of the estate.
- What is voluntary waste?
- Affirmative, intentional acts by a life tenant that damage the property's value.
- What is permissive waste?
- A life tenant's failure to make reasonable repairs, allowing the property to deteriorate.
- What is a reversion?
- The future interest kept by a grantor who conveys an estate smaller than what they own.
- What is a vested remainder?
- 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?
- A remainder subject to a condition precedent, or given to an unascertained person.
- What does the Rule Against Perpetuities require?
- 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?
- Time, title, interest, and possession.