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Business
Undergraduate 2
03/23/2012

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Term
Subrogation
Definition
right of a second part secondarily liable to stand in place of the creditor after making payment to the creditor and to enforce the creidtor's right against the party primarily liable in order to pbtain indemnity rom such primary party.
Term
Incontestability Clause
Definition
provision that after the lapse of a specified time the insurer cannot disputer the policy on the ground of misrepresentation or fraud of the insured or similar wrongful conduct.
Term
Agency
Definition
relationship between a person identified as a principal and another b virtue of which the latter may make contracts with third persons on behalf of the principal.
Term
Principal
Definition
person or firm who employs an agent; person who, with respect to surety, is primiarily liable to the third person or creditor.
Term
Employees
Definition
an agent is distinguished from an ordinary employee who is not ired to represent the employer in making contracts with third party persons.
Term
Independent Contractors
Definition
contractor who undertakes to perform a specified task according to the terms of a contract but over whom the other contracting party has no cotrol except as provided for by the contract.
Term
Special Agent
Definition
agent authorized to transact a specific transaction o to do a specific act.
Term
General agent
Definition
agent authorized by the principal to transact all affiars in connection withparticular type of business or trade or to transact all business at a certain place
Term
Universal Agent
Definition
agent authorized by the principal to do all acts that can be lawfully delegated to a representative.
Term
Easements
Definition
permanent right that one has in the land of another, as the right to cross another's land o an easment of way.
Term
Two types of Easements
Definition

Dominant

Servient

Term
Dominant tenement
Definition
lan that is benefited by easement
Term
Servient Easement
Definition
land that is subject to an easement
Term
Three Ways to Create and Easement
Definition

1. Easement of Implication

2. Way of Necessity

3. Prescription

Term
Easement of Implication
Definition
easement not specifically created by deed that ariss from the circumstances of the parties and the land location and access
Term
Way of Necessity
Definition
grantee's right to use land retained by the rantor for going to ad from the conveyed land
Term
Prescription
Definition
acquisition of a right touse thland of another, an easement, by making hosile, visible, and notorious us of the land, continuing for the period specifed by law.
Term
Profits
Definition
right to take a part of the soil or produce of another's land, such as timber or wter.
Term
Licenses
Definition
person privilege to do some act or series of acts upon the land of another, as the placing of a sign there on, not amounting to an easement or a right of possession.
Term
Liens
Definition
claim or right, against property, existing by virtue of the entry of a judgment against its owner or by the entry of a judgement and a levy there under on the property, or because of the relationship of the claimant to the particular property, such as an unpaid seller.
Term
Fixtures
Definition
personal property that has become so attached to or adapted to real estate that it has lost its character as personal property and is part of the real estate.
Term
Three Tests of a Fixture
Definition

1. Annexation

2. Adaption

3. Intent

Term
Annexation
Definition
personal property that is so attached t the realty that it canno be moved unless destroyed
Term
Adaption
Definition
personal property that is adapted to the use for the building may constitute a fixture
Term
Intent
Definition
considered when property was affixed, in absence courts resort to the nature of the property
Term
Six Things to Real Property
Definition

1. Land

2. Easements

3. Profits

4. Licenses

5. Liens

6. Fixtures

Term
Leasehold Estates
Definition
interest ofa tenant in rented land
Term
What are two freehold estates?
Definition
Fee simple state &Life Estate
Term
Fee Simple Estates
Definition
highest level of land ownership; full interest of unlimited duration
Term
Life Estate
Definition
An estate for the duration of a life
Term
Two Types of Future Interests
Definition

-Remainder Interest

-Possibility Reverter

Term
Remainder Interest
Definition
land interest thta follows a life estate
Term
Possibility of Reverter
Definition
grantor gets land back if grantee violates a certain condition prohibited
Term

Common Law Rule

(Three Types of catergories of Person(s) on one's land)

Definition

-Trespassers

-Licensees

-Invitees

Term

Attractive Nuisance Doctrine

What is it?

And what does it fall under from the Common Law Rule?

Definition

-a rule imposing liability on a landowner for injuries sustained any small children playing on the land when the landowner permits a condition to exist or maintains equipment that would attract small children who don't realize the danger.

-Trespassers

Term
Licensee
Definition
Someone on another's premises with the permission of the occupier whose duty is to warn the licensee of nonobvious dangers
Term
Invitees
Definition
Person who enters another's land by invitation
Term
Deed
Definition
an instrument by which the grantor (owner of land) conveys or transfers the title to a grantee
Term
Grantor
Definition
owner who transfers or conveys the interest in land to a new owner
Term
Grantee
Definition
New owner of a land conveyance
Term
Transferee
Definition
buyer or vendee
Term
Quitclaim Deed
Definition
deed by which the grantor purports to give up only whatever right or title the grantor may have in the property without specifying or warranting transfer of any particular interest
Term
Warranty Deed
Definition
deed by which the speific estate or interests to the grantee and makes one or more of the covenants of title
Term
Acceptance
Definition
unqualified assent to the act or proposal of another
Term
Recorder
Definition
public official in charge of deeds
Term
Race statute
Definition
statute under which the first party to record the deeds holds the title
Term
Notice statute
Definition
statute under which the last good faith or bona fide purchaser holds the title
Term
Notice-Race Statute
Definition
statute under which the first bona fide purchaser to record teh deed holds the title
Term
Abstract of title
Definition
history of all the transfers of a title to a given piece of land, briefly stating tthe parties to and the effect of all deeds, wills, and judicial proceedings relating to the land
Term
Warranty of Title
Definition
implied warranty that the title to the goods is good and transfer is proper
Term
Covenants of title
Definition
grantor's covenants of a deed that guarantee such matters as the right to make conveyance, to ownership of the property, to freedom of the property, to freedom of the property from encumbrances, or that the grantee will not be disturbed in the quiet enjoyment of the land
Term
Covenants of Seisin
Definition
guarantee that the grantor of an interest in land owns the estate conveyed to a new owner
Term
Covenant of a right to convey
Definition
guarantee that the grantor of an interest in land, if not the owner, has the right or authority to make the conveyance to a new owner.
Term
Covenant against the encumbrances
Definition
guarantee that conveyed land is not subject to any right or interest of a third person
Term
Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment
Definition
covenant by the grantor of an interest in land that grantee's possession of the land shall not be disturbed
Term
Limited Covenant
Definition
any covenant that does not provide the complete protection of a full covenant
Term
Covenant of further assurances
Definition
promise that the grantor of an interest in land will execute any additional documents required to perfect the title of the grantee
Term
Run with the Land
Definition
concept that certain covenants in a deed to land are deemed to run or pass with the land so, is bound by or entitled to the benefit of the covenants
Term
Eminent Domain
Definition
power of government and certain kinds of corporations to take property against the objection of the owner, provided the taking is for a public purpose and just compensation is made for it
Term
Adverse Possession
Definition
hostile possession of real estate
Term
5 Things for Adverse Possession
Definition

1. Actual

2. Visible & Notorious

3. Exclusive

4. Hostile

5. Continous for a required period of time

Term

What does ARM stand for?

And what is it?

Definition

-Adjustable Rate Mortgage

-mortgage with variable financing charges over the life of the loan

Term
Reverse mortgage
Definition
mortgage in which the owners get their equity out of their home over a period of time and return the house to the lender upon their deaths
Term
Foreclosure
Definition
procedure for enforcing a mortgage resulting in the public sale of the mortgaged property and less commonly, in merely barring the right of the mortgagor to redeem the property from the mortgage
Term
Lease
Definition
the relationship in which one person is in lawful possession of real property owned by another
Term
Tenancy for Years
Definition
tenancy for a fixed period of time, even though less than a year
Term
Periodic Tenancy
Definition
tenancy that continues indefinitely for a specified rental period until terminated
Term
Assignment
Definition
transfer by the tenant of the tenant's entire interest in the premises to a third person
Term
Sublessee
Definition

is a transfer to a third person

(Is usually not liable to the original lessor for rent unless that liability has been expressly assumed or is imposed by statute

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