Property Law Flashcards
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A grantor conveys land "to A for life, then to B and her heirs." What interest does B hold during A's lifetime?
Answer: A vested remainder in fee simple
B is an ascertained person with no condition precedent, so B holds a vested remainder in fee simple absolute.
In Kentucky, what is the statutory period required to establish title by adverse possession of real property?
Answer: 15 years
Kentucky requires 15 years of open, notorious, hostile, exclusive, and continuous possession under KRS 413.010.
A landowner sells the back half of his parcel, which has no road access except across the retained front half. No easement is mentioned in the deed. What easement most likely arises?
Answer: An easement by necessity
Severance of a commonly owned parcel that landlocks one portion creates an easement by necessity over the retained land.
A tenant with a one-year lease remains in possession after the term ends and the landlord accepts the next month's rent. What tenancy is created in most jurisdictions?
Answer: A periodic tenancy
Acceptance of rent from a holdover tenant generally converts the tenancy at sufferance into a periodic tenancy measured by the rent payment.
Which deed covenant is breached, if at all, only when the grantee is actually or constructively evicted by someone with paramount title?
Answer: The covenant of quiet enjoyment
Quiet enjoyment and warranty are future covenants breached only upon eviction or disturbance by superior title.
O conveys Blackacre to A, who does not record. O then conveys Blackacre to B, a bona fide purchaser who records. Kentucky follows a race-notice recording regime for most purposes. Who prevails?
Answer: B, because B took without notice and recorded first
Under a race-notice statute, a subsequent bona fide purchaser who records first prevails over a prior unrecorded conveyance.
Two siblings hold land as joint tenants with right of survivorship. One sibling secretly conveys her interest to a friend. What is the state of title after the conveyance?
Answer: The friend and the remaining sibling hold as tenants in common
An inter vivos conveyance by one joint tenant severs the joint tenancy, leaving the grantee and the other co-tenant as tenants in common.
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