Property Bar Exam Test Questions with Correct Complete Solutions (2025) Edition.

Fee Simple Determinable - Answer o "To A & his heirs for so long as...until...while...during" o Duration: As long as condition is met, then to grantor o Future interest in grantor: Possibility of Reverter o Correlative Future Interest in Third Party: (Fee Simple Subject to an Executory Interest, below) Fee Simple Subject to Condition Subsequent - Answer o "To A & his heirs, but if...upon condition that...provided that..." o Duration: Until happening of named event and reentry by grantor o Future interest in grantor: Right of Entry o Future interest in Third party: (See fee simple subject to an executory interest) Perpetuities - Answer o No interest in property is valid unless it must vest, if at all, no later than 21 years of a life in being at the creation of the interest. Perpetuities NC - Answer Invalid unless it would be valid under common law rule or it either vests or terminates within 90 years of its creation. Wait and see provision. Forfeiture Restraints (attempted transfer forfeits interest) - Answer Fine for fee simple if for limited time and reasonable purposes Promissory Restraints (Attempted transfer breaches a covenant) - Answer Fine for fee simple if for limited time and reasonable purposes Lateral Support - Answer o Support land in its natural state. Strictly liable if its causes adjacent land to subside. o Support of land and buildings. Has to be shown that the building would have collapsed even in natural slate. Otherwise must show negligence. Water Rights - Answer o Riparian Doctrine If you own land bordering water you can use it. • Most states follow reasonable use standard. o Surface waters