ROCKWELL REAL ESTATE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Covenants for General Warranty Deed - ✔✔Right to convery (the grantor has title to
an interest in the proper or authority to transfer title), covenant of seisin (good faith
belief in ones ownership), covenant agains encumbrances, covenant of quiet
enjoyment, covenant of warranty
✔✔Special Warranty Deed - ✔✔A deed in which the grantor warrants, or guarantees,
the title only against defects arising during the period of his or her tenure and ownership
of the property and not against defects existing before that time, generally using the
language, "by, through, or under the grantor but not otherwise."
✔✔Habendum Clause - ✔✔That part of a deed beginning with the words "to have and
to hold," following the granting clause and defining the extent of ownership the grantor is
conveying. Owners exact interest in the property
✔✔Quit title action - ✔✔Is a lawsuit to determine who has title to a piece of property or
to remove a cloud from the title. This is done when cloud cannot be cleared amicably
with a quitclaim deed.
✔✔partition - ✔✔Court ordered division of a property among its co owners and they
cannot agree on how to divide it
✔✔Accession - ✔✔Is any addition to real property from natural or artificial causes
✔✔accrection - ✔✔When riparian or littoral land is enlarged by waterborne soul (such
as a river depositing additional soil known as alluvium or alluvium, on land that borders
it), the owner acquired title to the added soil
✔✔Reliction - ✔✔When a body of water gradually recedes, exposing land that was
previously under water.
✔✔Avulsion - ✔✔The sudden tearing away of land by the action of water, as with a
flood
✔✔encumbrance - ✔✔An interest in real property held by someone other than the
property owner
✔✔Voluntary Lien - ✔✔A security interest in a property given voluntarily to a creditor by
the property owner; in the real estate context, it is either a mortgage or a deed of trust
✔✔Involuntary Lien - ✔✔A security interest given to a creditor by operation of law
, ✔✔General Lien - ✔✔A lien that attaches to all of a debtor's property
✔✔Specific Lien - ✔✔A lien that attaches only to one particular piece of property
✔✔Construction Lien - ✔✔a lien on property in favor of someone who provided labor or
materials to improve it; also called a mechanic's lien or materialman's lien
✔✔Judgement Lien - ✔✔A lien held by someone who has won a judgment in a lawsuit,
attaching
to property owned by the person who lost the lawsuit.
✔✔Easement - ✔✔The right to use the land of another for a particular purpose.
✔✔Easement Appurtenant - ✔✔an easement that burdens one parcel of land (the
servient tenement) for the benefit of another parcel (the dominant tenement)
✔✔Easement in Gross - ✔✔an easement that benefits a person rather than a parcel of
land
✔✔Easement by Implication - ✔✔an easement created automatically because it is
necessary for the enjoyment of the benefited land
✔✔Prescriptive Easement - ✔✔an easement created by continuous use for the
statutory period, without the landowner's permission
✔✔Merger - ✔✔When both the dominant and servient tenements are acquired by one
owner resulting in termination of the easement
✔✔Abandonment - ✔✔A way in which an easement may terminate; it requires action by
the easement holder, not simply non-use
✔✔Profit - ✔✔The right to take something (such as timber) from another's land
✔✔License - ✔✔Revocable permission to enter another's land, which does not create
an interest in the property
✔✔Encroachment - ✔✔A physical object that intrudes onto another's property, such as
a tree branch or a fence
✔✔Nuisance - ✔✔An activity or condition on a nearby property that interfers with a
property owners reasonable use and enjoyment of her property
✔✔CC&Rs - ✔✔Covenants, conditions, and restrictions; private restrictions imposed by
a subdivision developer
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Covenants for General Warranty Deed - ✔✔Right to convery (the grantor has title to
an interest in the proper or authority to transfer title), covenant of seisin (good faith
belief in ones ownership), covenant agains encumbrances, covenant of quiet
enjoyment, covenant of warranty
✔✔Special Warranty Deed - ✔✔A deed in which the grantor warrants, or guarantees,
the title only against defects arising during the period of his or her tenure and ownership
of the property and not against defects existing before that time, generally using the
language, "by, through, or under the grantor but not otherwise."
✔✔Habendum Clause - ✔✔That part of a deed beginning with the words "to have and
to hold," following the granting clause and defining the extent of ownership the grantor is
conveying. Owners exact interest in the property
✔✔Quit title action - ✔✔Is a lawsuit to determine who has title to a piece of property or
to remove a cloud from the title. This is done when cloud cannot be cleared amicably
with a quitclaim deed.
✔✔partition - ✔✔Court ordered division of a property among its co owners and they
cannot agree on how to divide it
✔✔Accession - ✔✔Is any addition to real property from natural or artificial causes
✔✔accrection - ✔✔When riparian or littoral land is enlarged by waterborne soul (such
as a river depositing additional soil known as alluvium or alluvium, on land that borders
it), the owner acquired title to the added soil
✔✔Reliction - ✔✔When a body of water gradually recedes, exposing land that was
previously under water.
✔✔Avulsion - ✔✔The sudden tearing away of land by the action of water, as with a
flood
✔✔encumbrance - ✔✔An interest in real property held by someone other than the
property owner
✔✔Voluntary Lien - ✔✔A security interest in a property given voluntarily to a creditor by
the property owner; in the real estate context, it is either a mortgage or a deed of trust
✔✔Involuntary Lien - ✔✔A security interest given to a creditor by operation of law
, ✔✔General Lien - ✔✔A lien that attaches to all of a debtor's property
✔✔Specific Lien - ✔✔A lien that attaches only to one particular piece of property
✔✔Construction Lien - ✔✔a lien on property in favor of someone who provided labor or
materials to improve it; also called a mechanic's lien or materialman's lien
✔✔Judgement Lien - ✔✔A lien held by someone who has won a judgment in a lawsuit,
attaching
to property owned by the person who lost the lawsuit.
✔✔Easement - ✔✔The right to use the land of another for a particular purpose.
✔✔Easement Appurtenant - ✔✔an easement that burdens one parcel of land (the
servient tenement) for the benefit of another parcel (the dominant tenement)
✔✔Easement in Gross - ✔✔an easement that benefits a person rather than a parcel of
land
✔✔Easement by Implication - ✔✔an easement created automatically because it is
necessary for the enjoyment of the benefited land
✔✔Prescriptive Easement - ✔✔an easement created by continuous use for the
statutory period, without the landowner's permission
✔✔Merger - ✔✔When both the dominant and servient tenements are acquired by one
owner resulting in termination of the easement
✔✔Abandonment - ✔✔A way in which an easement may terminate; it requires action by
the easement holder, not simply non-use
✔✔Profit - ✔✔The right to take something (such as timber) from another's land
✔✔License - ✔✔Revocable permission to enter another's land, which does not create
an interest in the property
✔✔Encroachment - ✔✔A physical object that intrudes onto another's property, such as
a tree branch or a fence
✔✔Nuisance - ✔✔An activity or condition on a nearby property that interfers with a
property owners reasonable use and enjoyment of her property
✔✔CC&Rs - ✔✔Covenants, conditions, and restrictions; private restrictions imposed by
a subdivision developer
