ROCKWELL REAL ESTATE EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Freehold Estate - Answers - Is an interest in real property that has an indeterminable
(not fixed or certain) referred to as a owner
Fee Simple Estate - Answers - Is the greatest estate that can exist in land, the highest
and most complete form of ownership. It is potentially infinite duration and represents
the whole "bundle of rights"
Estate of Inheritance - Answers - An estate that can pass to the holders heirs,
especially a fee simple
Defensible fee estate - Answers - A fee simple estate that carries a qualification, so
that ownership may revert to the grantor if a specified event occurs or a condition is not
met
Fee Simple Determinable - Answers - Ends automatically if the condition is violated,
the property reverts back to the grantor without legal action by the grantor
Fee Simple Subject to Condition Subsequent - Answers - doesn't end automatically
when the condition is breached, instead the grantor must take some action
Life Estate - Answers - Is a freehold estate whose duration is limited to the lifetime of a
specified person or persons
pur autre vie - Answers - "For the life of another." A life estate pur autre vie is a life
estate that is measured by the life of a person other than the grantee
Leasehold Estate - Answers - Has a limited duration (one year less is an example) it is
referred to as a tenant
Estate - Answers - An interest in land that is or may become possessory
Waste - Answers - Permanent damage to real property caused by the party in
possession, harming the interests of other estate holders.
Estate for years - Answers - A leasehold Estate with a fixed term. Also called a term
tenancy
Periodic Tenancy - Answers - a leasehold estate that is renewed at the end of each
period unless one party gives notice of termination
Estate at will - Answers - A leasehold estate without a definite termination date that
may arise after a periodic tenancy or an estate for years terminates. Also called a
tenancy at will
,Ownership in Severalty - Answers - sole ownership of property
Tenancy in Common - Answers - Joint ownership where there is no right of
survivorship
Joint Tenancy - Answers - Joint ownership with right of survivorship
Right of Survivorship - Answers - The right by which the surviving joint tenant(s)
acquire another joint tenant's interest in the property upon her death
Community Property - Answers - property owned jointly by a married couple.
Corporation - Answers - A business entity owned by shareholders, governed by a
board of directors and managed by corporate officers; the shareholders have limited
liability
Partnership - Answers - an association of two or more persons to carry on a business
for profit as co owners
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) - Answers - A real estate investment business
that qualifies for tax advantages if certain requirements are met
Condominium - Answers - A property that has been developed so that individual unit
owners have separate title to their own units, but share ownership of the common
elements as tenants in common.
cooperative - Answers - A property that is owned by a corporation and tenanted by
share holders in the corporation who have proprietary leases for their units
Timeshare - Answers -
Real Property - Answers - land, attachments, and appurtenances
Personal Property - Answers - Anything that is not real property, it's main
characteristics is movability
appurtenance - Answers - A right incidental to the land that is transferred with it
Emblements - Answers - Crops, such as wheat, produced annually through the labor
of the cultivator
Trade Fixtures - Answers - Personal property attached to real property by a tenant for
use in a trade or business. Trade fixtures are removable by the tenant.
Riparian Land - Answers - Land bordered by flowing water, such as a stream or river
, Littoral land - Answers - Land bordered by a stationary body of water, such as a lake
or pond.
Appropriative Rights - Answers - Water rights established by obtaining a government
permit, and not based on ownership of land beside a body of water.
Lateral Support - Answers - The physical support that a piece of land receives from the
surrounding land
Subjacent Support - Answers - The physical support that a piece of land receives from
the underlying earth
Metes and Bounds - Answers - A system of land description in which the boundaries of
a parcel of land are described by reference to monuments, courses and distances
Monument - Answers - A visible marker (natural or artificial) used in a survey or a
metes and bounds description to establish the boundaries of a piece of property.
Point of Beginning - Answers - The starting point in a metes and bounds description; a
monument or a point described by reference to a monument.
Course - Answers - In a metes and bounds description, a direction, stated in terms of a
compass bearing.
Distance - Answers - In a metes and bounds description, the length of a boundary,
measured in any convenient unit of length
Government Survey - Answers - A system of land description in which the land is
divided into squares called townships, and each township is, in turn, divided up into 36
sections, each one square mile.
Principal Meridian - Answers - In the government survey system, the main north-south
line in a particular grid, used as the starting point in numbering the ranges and township
tiers.
Range - Answers - In the government survey system, a strip of land six miles wide,
running north and south
Township - Answers - The intersection of a range and a township tier in the
government survey system. It is a parcel of land that is six miles square and contains 36
sections.
Section - Answers - One square mile of land, containing 640 acres. There are 36
sections in a township
Freehold Estate - Answers - Is an interest in real property that has an indeterminable
(not fixed or certain) referred to as a owner
Fee Simple Estate - Answers - Is the greatest estate that can exist in land, the highest
and most complete form of ownership. It is potentially infinite duration and represents
the whole "bundle of rights"
Estate of Inheritance - Answers - An estate that can pass to the holders heirs,
especially a fee simple
Defensible fee estate - Answers - A fee simple estate that carries a qualification, so
that ownership may revert to the grantor if a specified event occurs or a condition is not
met
Fee Simple Determinable - Answers - Ends automatically if the condition is violated,
the property reverts back to the grantor without legal action by the grantor
Fee Simple Subject to Condition Subsequent - Answers - doesn't end automatically
when the condition is breached, instead the grantor must take some action
Life Estate - Answers - Is a freehold estate whose duration is limited to the lifetime of a
specified person or persons
pur autre vie - Answers - "For the life of another." A life estate pur autre vie is a life
estate that is measured by the life of a person other than the grantee
Leasehold Estate - Answers - Has a limited duration (one year less is an example) it is
referred to as a tenant
Estate - Answers - An interest in land that is or may become possessory
Waste - Answers - Permanent damage to real property caused by the party in
possession, harming the interests of other estate holders.
Estate for years - Answers - A leasehold Estate with a fixed term. Also called a term
tenancy
Periodic Tenancy - Answers - a leasehold estate that is renewed at the end of each
period unless one party gives notice of termination
Estate at will - Answers - A leasehold estate without a definite termination date that
may arise after a periodic tenancy or an estate for years terminates. Also called a
tenancy at will
,Ownership in Severalty - Answers - sole ownership of property
Tenancy in Common - Answers - Joint ownership where there is no right of
survivorship
Joint Tenancy - Answers - Joint ownership with right of survivorship
Right of Survivorship - Answers - The right by which the surviving joint tenant(s)
acquire another joint tenant's interest in the property upon her death
Community Property - Answers - property owned jointly by a married couple.
Corporation - Answers - A business entity owned by shareholders, governed by a
board of directors and managed by corporate officers; the shareholders have limited
liability
Partnership - Answers - an association of two or more persons to carry on a business
for profit as co owners
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) - Answers - A real estate investment business
that qualifies for tax advantages if certain requirements are met
Condominium - Answers - A property that has been developed so that individual unit
owners have separate title to their own units, but share ownership of the common
elements as tenants in common.
cooperative - Answers - A property that is owned by a corporation and tenanted by
share holders in the corporation who have proprietary leases for their units
Timeshare - Answers -
Real Property - Answers - land, attachments, and appurtenances
Personal Property - Answers - Anything that is not real property, it's main
characteristics is movability
appurtenance - Answers - A right incidental to the land that is transferred with it
Emblements - Answers - Crops, such as wheat, produced annually through the labor
of the cultivator
Trade Fixtures - Answers - Personal property attached to real property by a tenant for
use in a trade or business. Trade fixtures are removable by the tenant.
Riparian Land - Answers - Land bordered by flowing water, such as a stream or river
, Littoral land - Answers - Land bordered by a stationary body of water, such as a lake
or pond.
Appropriative Rights - Answers - Water rights established by obtaining a government
permit, and not based on ownership of land beside a body of water.
Lateral Support - Answers - The physical support that a piece of land receives from the
surrounding land
Subjacent Support - Answers - The physical support that a piece of land receives from
the underlying earth
Metes and Bounds - Answers - A system of land description in which the boundaries of
a parcel of land are described by reference to monuments, courses and distances
Monument - Answers - A visible marker (natural or artificial) used in a survey or a
metes and bounds description to establish the boundaries of a piece of property.
Point of Beginning - Answers - The starting point in a metes and bounds description; a
monument or a point described by reference to a monument.
Course - Answers - In a metes and bounds description, a direction, stated in terms of a
compass bearing.
Distance - Answers - In a metes and bounds description, the length of a boundary,
measured in any convenient unit of length
Government Survey - Answers - A system of land description in which the land is
divided into squares called townships, and each township is, in turn, divided up into 36
sections, each one square mile.
Principal Meridian - Answers - In the government survey system, the main north-south
line in a particular grid, used as the starting point in numbering the ranges and township
tiers.
Range - Answers - In the government survey system, a strip of land six miles wide,
running north and south
Township - Answers - The intersection of a range and a township tier in the
government survey system. It is a parcel of land that is six miles square and contains 36
sections.
Section - Answers - One square mile of land, containing 640 acres. There are 36
sections in a township
