CHAPTER 3: INTERESTS AND ESTATES
How is a conventional life estate created?
A fee simple owner grants the life estate to a life tenant.
Which of the following is true of a homestead?
A homestead interest cannot be conveyed by one spouse
What distinguishes a freehold estate from a leasehold estate?
A leasehold endures only for a specific period of time
Which of the following is an illustration of the legal concept of elective share
A widow who was excluded from a will makes a claim to a portion of the couple's principal residence.
A one-year lease on a house has expired, but the tenant continues sending monthly rent checks to the owner, and the owner accepts them. What kind of leasehold estate exists?
Estate from period to period
Which of the following life estates is created by someone other than the owner?
Legal life estate
What distinguishes a pur autre vie life estate from an ordinary life estate?
The pur autre vie estate endures only for the lifetime of a person other than the grantee.
Dower refers to
a wife's life estate interest in her husband's property.
The highest form of ownership interest one can acquire in real estate is the
absolute fee simple estate.
Encumbrances and police powers are
interests that do not include possession
An interest in real estate is best defined as ownership of
one or more of the bundle of rights to real property.
The distinguishing feature of a defeasible fee simple estate is that
the estate may revert to a grantor or heirs if the prescribed use changes
Upon the death of the owner, a life estate passes to
the original owner or other named person