LOUISIANA NOTARY ACTUAL TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Resolutory Condition - ✔✔A condition of an obligation providing that upon the
occurrence of a particular uncertain event the obligation will come to an end
✔✔Possessor - ✔✔Owner of the thing he possesses until the right of the true owner is
established
✔✔Quasi Possession - ✔✔Exercising a real right, such as a servitude
✔✔Dereliction - ✔✔land formed by water receding imperceptibly from the bank of a river
or stream; owner of land on the edge of the bank left dry owns the dereliction.
✔✔Alluvion - ✔✔Accretion (growth) formed successively and imperceptibly on the bank
of a river or stream, whether navigable or not
✔✔Servitude - ✔✔a charge or burden upon a thing, usually an immovable, for the
benefit of another person or another estate.
✔✔Personal Servitude - ✔✔Charge on a thing for the benefit of a person. There are
three: usufruct, right of use, and habitation.
✔✔Predial Servitude - ✔✔A charge on a servient estate for the benefit of a dominant
estate. The two estates must belong to different owners
✔✔Consumable Thing - ✔✔Things that cannot be used without being expended or
consumed, or without their substance being changed, such as money, harvested
agricultural products, stocks of merchandise, foodstuffs, and beverages.
✔✔Nonconsumable Thing - ✔✔things that may be enjoyed without alteration of their
substance such as land, houses, shares of stock or animals
, ✔✔Partition - ✔✔Legal procedure to divide the co-owners' interests in real property
✔✔Juridical person - ✔✔An entity to which the law attributes legal personality, such as
a corporation.
✔✔Family - ✔✔signifies father, mother and children; depending on the subject can
include all individuals who live under the authority of another, including servants; the
term is also used to include relations that descend from a common root
✔✔Heritable - ✔✔capable of being transferred by voluntary action or succession
✔✔Predial and Personal - ✔✔Two types of servitude
✔✔res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself) - ✔✔court may be willing to infer that the
defendant caused the harm, under this doctrine .
-shifts the burden of proof from plaintiff to defendant
-applies only when
( 1) the defendant had exclusive control of the thing that caused the harm
( 2) the harm normally would not have occurred without negli-gence, and
( 3) the plaintiff had no role in causing the harm.
✔✔acquisitive prescription - ✔✔A mode of acquiring ownership of other real rights by
uninterrupted possession for a period of time.
✔✔building restriction - ✔✔Charges imposed by the owner of an immovable in
pursuance of a general plan governing building standards, specified uses, and
improvements; must be feasible and capable of being preserved.
✔✔estate - ✔✔distinct, corporeal immovable
✔✔Servient Estate - ✔✔The tract of land burdened by a servitude or an easement.
✔✔Predial - ✔✔Pertaining to or consisting of land or its products arising from or
consequent upon the occupation of land; attached to land
✔✔Predial Servitude - ✔✔that which one estate owes to another estate; when related to
lands, vineyards, gardens or the like, it is called rural; when it is related to houses and
buildings it is called urban
✔✔Donation inter vivos - ✔✔a contract by which a living person, called the donor,
gratuitously divests himself, at present and irrevocably, of the thing given in favor of
another, called the donee, who accepts it
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Resolutory Condition - ✔✔A condition of an obligation providing that upon the
occurrence of a particular uncertain event the obligation will come to an end
✔✔Possessor - ✔✔Owner of the thing he possesses until the right of the true owner is
established
✔✔Quasi Possession - ✔✔Exercising a real right, such as a servitude
✔✔Dereliction - ✔✔land formed by water receding imperceptibly from the bank of a river
or stream; owner of land on the edge of the bank left dry owns the dereliction.
✔✔Alluvion - ✔✔Accretion (growth) formed successively and imperceptibly on the bank
of a river or stream, whether navigable or not
✔✔Servitude - ✔✔a charge or burden upon a thing, usually an immovable, for the
benefit of another person or another estate.
✔✔Personal Servitude - ✔✔Charge on a thing for the benefit of a person. There are
three: usufruct, right of use, and habitation.
✔✔Predial Servitude - ✔✔A charge on a servient estate for the benefit of a dominant
estate. The two estates must belong to different owners
✔✔Consumable Thing - ✔✔Things that cannot be used without being expended or
consumed, or without their substance being changed, such as money, harvested
agricultural products, stocks of merchandise, foodstuffs, and beverages.
✔✔Nonconsumable Thing - ✔✔things that may be enjoyed without alteration of their
substance such as land, houses, shares of stock or animals
, ✔✔Partition - ✔✔Legal procedure to divide the co-owners' interests in real property
✔✔Juridical person - ✔✔An entity to which the law attributes legal personality, such as
a corporation.
✔✔Family - ✔✔signifies father, mother and children; depending on the subject can
include all individuals who live under the authority of another, including servants; the
term is also used to include relations that descend from a common root
✔✔Heritable - ✔✔capable of being transferred by voluntary action or succession
✔✔Predial and Personal - ✔✔Two types of servitude
✔✔res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself) - ✔✔court may be willing to infer that the
defendant caused the harm, under this doctrine .
-shifts the burden of proof from plaintiff to defendant
-applies only when
( 1) the defendant had exclusive control of the thing that caused the harm
( 2) the harm normally would not have occurred without negli-gence, and
( 3) the plaintiff had no role in causing the harm.
✔✔acquisitive prescription - ✔✔A mode of acquiring ownership of other real rights by
uninterrupted possession for a period of time.
✔✔building restriction - ✔✔Charges imposed by the owner of an immovable in
pursuance of a general plan governing building standards, specified uses, and
improvements; must be feasible and capable of being preserved.
✔✔estate - ✔✔distinct, corporeal immovable
✔✔Servient Estate - ✔✔The tract of land burdened by a servitude or an easement.
✔✔Predial - ✔✔Pertaining to or consisting of land or its products arising from or
consequent upon the occupation of land; attached to land
✔✔Predial Servitude - ✔✔that which one estate owes to another estate; when related to
lands, vineyards, gardens or the like, it is called rural; when it is related to houses and
buildings it is called urban
✔✔Donation inter vivos - ✔✔a contract by which a living person, called the donor,
gratuitously divests himself, at present and irrevocably, of the thing given in favor of
another, called the donee, who accepts it
