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REAL PROPERTY
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Tim Tyler, Ph.D., Attorney at Law
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CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF REAL PROPERTY LAW ..................................................................... 1
1. THERE ARE ONLY TWO TYPES OF PROPERTY ......................................................................................... 1
2. SEVEN REAL PROPERTY INTERESTS ........................................................................................................ 1
3. TWO TYPES OF ESTATES ......................................................................................................................... 2
4. RESTRAINTS ON ALIENATION ARE GENERALLY DISFAVORED ................................................................ 2
5 DIFFERENT INTERESTS IN LAND ARE CONVEYED IN DIFFERENT WAYS ................................................... 2
CHAPTER 2: FREEHOLD ESTATES ...................................................................................................... 3
1. CURRENT FREEHOLD ESTATES ............................................................................................................... 3
A. Fee Simple Estates............................................................................................................................ 3
1) Fee Simple Modernly Presumed ................................................................................................................... 3
2) Alienability and Passage of Title to Heirs.................................................................................................... . 4
3) Fee Simple Absolute is the Largest Estate ................................................................................................... . 4
G. Tenancy-in-Common ..................................................................................................................... 24
1) Modern Presumption Opposite of Common Law .................................................................................. ..... 25
2) Exception: Interests Held by Fiduciaries ................................................................................... ................. 25
3) No Right of Survivorship and Shares Freely Alienable .............................................................................. 25
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B. Equal Dignity Rule for Contractor with Real Estate Broker .......................................................... 56
C. Statute of Frauds Requirements for Real Estate Leases................................................................. 56
1) Writing Needed If Option to Renew Beyond Year .............................................................................. ....... 57
2) Void Lease Creates Periodic Tenancy ....................................................................................................... . 57
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For example, air is valuable but is not property because one cannot feasibly stop others from using it.
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Chapter 1: Overview
B. Each Co-Tenant has the Right to Free Use of All of the Land
Concurrent owners (i.e. co-tenants) may partition the land by agreement. Otherwise they
each have an undivided interest and right to freely use all of the land, regardless of their
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Undivided means that the land is not partitioned and each owner has a right to use the entirety of it.
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Covenants and restrictive servitudes (along with zoning codes) are often are referred modernly to as
being the Codes, Covenants and Restrictions or CC&Rs that control land use.
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The original promisor who sells is generally released from all further liability because privity of estate is
terminated and courts often ignore liability based on privity of contract. This is inconsistent with the usual
approach when landlords sell property subject to an ongoing lease or when tenants assign a lease.
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Index
Index
Dominant Estates, 88, 89, 90, 91
Dower, 31
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Easements, 2, 55, 60, 63, 69, 77, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88,
89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 98, 107, 112
Easements in Gross, 88, 93
Eminent Domain, 49, 52
Equal Dignity Rule, 56
Equitable Conversion, 62
Equitable Servitude, 88, 94, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102,
103, 104, 105, 106
Equity, 1, 13, 14, 54, 55, 74, 94, 99
Estates, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19,
20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 33, 37, 46, 82, 86, 88, 89,
91, 92, 96
Estates Subject to Conditions, 6
Estoppel, 14, 55, 71, 77, 91, 92
Estoppel by Deed, 71
Executory Interest, 1, 6, 13, 16, 17, 18
Express conditions, 4, 6, 48
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5th Amendment, 108
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Accretion, 54
Adverse possession, 2, 60, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86,
87, 90, 92
Affirmative waste, 5
Alimony, 32
Ameliorative waste, 5
Appurtenant, easements, 2, 88, 90, 91, 93, 111
Assignment of leases, 33, 47, 48, 49, 63, 76, 94
Avulsion, 54
Bone Fide Purchaser for Value, 3, 58, 65, 67, 68, 77,
82, 94, 96, 102
Failure of Conditions, 13
Fee Simple, 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 17, 26, 31, 55, 65, 98
Fee Tail, 3, 6, 31
Fixtures, 46, 47
Foreclosure, 28, 57, 73, 74, 96
Four Unities, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Fraud, 42, 79, 96
Freehold Estates, 3, 9, 21, 33, 65, 69, 96, 98, 99
Future Estates, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 37, 46, 86
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Class Gifts, 14, 17, 18, 20
Common law Merger Doctrine, 68, 72
Community Property, 30, 114, 118, 119
Concealed defects, 39
Concurrent Estates, 21, 23
Condemnation, 49, 106
Condition Precedent, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16
Condition Subsequent, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 17, 73
Condominiums, 52, 72, 106
Contingent Remainders, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18
Continuing Conditions, 11
Covenant of Further Assurances, 69, 70
Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment, 38, 69, 70, 99
Covenant of Right to Convey, 69
Covenant of Seisin, 69
Covenant of Warranty, 70
Covenants Running with the Land, 42, 96, 98, 99
Coverture, 32
Curtesy, 31
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Grant Deed, 60
Grantor-Grantee Index, 80
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Habitability, implied covenant of, 36, 38, 39, 43, 46,
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Holdover Tenants, 34, 35, 36, 43, 82, 83
Homeowner Associations, 106
Horizontal Privity, 97, 98
Hostile Possession, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
Damages, 5, 6, 28, 38, 40, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54,
58, 59, 61, 63, 64, 68, 70, 86, 95, 100
Defeasible, 6, 7, 9, 11, 15, 37, 46, 66
Destructibility of Contingent Remainders, 13
Detrimental Reliance, 55, 77, 92
Doctrine of Equitable Conversion, 61, 62
Doctrine of Equitable Waste, 7
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Quiet enjoyment, implied covenant of, 36, 37, 38, 43,
45, 69, 70, 94, 99
Quitclaim Deeds, 58, 60, 61, 65, 69, 70, 96
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Joint Tenancy, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 73
Jure Uxoris, 32
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Real Property, 1, 2, 13, 18, 21, 30, 31, 32, 41, 42, 46,
52, 56, 71, 119
Rebuttable presumption, 23, 65, 66
Recording statutes, 77, 78, 79, 103
Reimbursement, 28, 29, 30, 40
Relation Back Doctrine, 67, 68
Reliction, 54
Remainder, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20, 26, 83, 99
Remaindermen, 4, 5, 6, 9, 46
Remainders Subject to Open, 10
Remedies, 29, 37, 38, 39, 43, 45, 63, 118, 119
Rent Control, 52
Reversion, 4, 9, 99
Reversions, 4, 9, 13, 16
Reverter, possibility of, 1, 11, 12, 16, 60
Right of Entry, 1, 10, 12
Right of Survivorship, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32
Riparian, 111, 112
Rule Against Perpetuities, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18
Rule of Convenience, 14, 15
Running with the land, 2, 42, 69, 70, 91, 94, 95, 96,
97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105
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Lateral Support, 88, 112
Lease Assignments, 48
Lien Theory States, 27, 73
Life Estates, 1, 4, 5, 13, 26, 37
Life Tenants, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18, 46
Livery of Seisin, 13
Lump Sum Land Sales, 57, 58
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Major Breach, 59, 60, 61
Marital Property, 21, 23, 30, 32, 81
Marketable Title, 58, 60, 61, 64, 87
Measuring Life, 4, 5, 18, 19, 20
Merger Doctrine, 13, 68, 72
Metes and Bounds, 53
Mistake, iv, 42
Moore, 109
Mortgages, 5, 27, 29, 58, 59, 60, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75,
76, 79, 104
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Sales Broker Commissions, iv, 63
Security Interests, 27
Seisin, 13, 69
Semantics, 7
Servient Estates, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93
Servitudes running with the land, 60, 88, 94, 97, 99,
100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106
Settlement Date, 59, 60, 63
Special Warranty Deeds, 70
Specific Performance, 55, 56, 61, 63, 64
Statute of Frauds, 34, 55, 56, 57, 58, 83, 89, 93, 95,
100, 102
Statute of Uses, 13
Strict Liability, 112
Surface Water, 111, 113
Surrender and Acceptance, 5, 44, 45
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Non-Freehold Estates, 3, 33
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Options, 58
Ouster, 28, 29, 83, 85
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Part Performance Doctrine, 55, 56
Partitioning land, 21, 23, 29, 30
Per Autre Vie, Life Estate, 4, 5
Periodic Tenancy, 33, 35, 57, 82
Permissive Waste, 5
Personal Property, 1, 31, 32, 46, 52, 62, 111
Possessory estates, 2, 3, 9, 82
Possibility of Reverter, 1, 11, 12
Premises Liability, 41
Prescription, 2, 89, 92, 93
Prescriptive Easements, 90
Privity of Contract, 42, 47, 94, 99
Privity of Estate, 42, 47, 90, 94, 97, 99
Privity, horizontal, 97, 98
Privity, vertical, 98, 102
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Tacking, 86, 90
Tenancy at Sufferance, 33, 34
Tenancy by the Entireties, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 32
Tenancy for Years, 33, 34, 35, 57
Tenants-in-Common, 21, 23, 26, 30, 72
Third Party Beneficiary, 47
Title Defects, 60, 65, 67, 70
Title Search, 59, 71, 80, 81, 87
Title Theory States, 27, 73
Titleholder, 2, 14
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Vertical Privity, 98, 102
Vested, 2, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 26
Vested Remainders, 10, 11
Vesting, 14, 15, 16
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Zoning, 23, 60, 94, 107, 109, 110, 112
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