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Fee Simple Absolute (FSA): Alienable Inheritable Transfer upon death without a valid will Die intestate Goes to heirs at law Devisable Transfer upon death with a valid will Devisees Fee Simple Absolute (FSA):

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Fee Simple Absolute (FSA):

  • Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Transfer upon death without a valid will
  • Die intestate
  • Goes to heirs at law
  • Devisable
  • Transfer upon death with a valid will
  • Devisees
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tg X’s FSA Fee Simple Absolute (FSA):

  • Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable
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Creation of a Fee Simple Absolute (conveyance/transfer):

  • O conveys the land to A and her heirs
  • Words of Purchase?
  • Words of Limitation?
  • Grantor/Transferor?
  • Grantee/Transferee?

tg A’s FSA What about:

  • O conveys the land to A forever
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tg X’s FSA Fee Simple Absolute (FSA) – FUTURE INTEREST No Future Interest

  • nothing left
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Fee Tail (FT):

  • Not Freely Alienable
  • Modified Inheritable
  • Not Devisable

tg X’s FT Ex

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Creation of a Fee Tail:

  • O conveys the land to A and heirs of her body

What about:

  • O conveys the land to A and male heirs of her body

tg A’s FT Ex

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Fee Tail (FT) – FUTURE INTEREST: tg X’s FT Ex Reversion to Grantor

  • inherent in conveyance

O’s Reversion

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Reversion:

  • Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable

What does Reversion become?

  • Fee Simple Absolute

tg X’s FT Ex O’s Reversion

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Life Estate (LE):

  • Alienable
  • Not Inheritable
  • Not Devisable

tg X’s LE Ex

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Creation of a Life Estate:

  • O conveys the land to A for life

What about:

  • O conveys the land to A

tg A’s LE Ex

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Life Estate (LE) – FUTURE INTEREST: tg X’s LE Ex Reversion to Grantor

  • inherent in conveyance

O’s Reversion

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Fee Simple Determinable (FSD):

  • Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable

tg X’s FSD

  • Automatic !
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Creation of a Fee Simple Determinable:

  • O conveys the land to A and her heirs until the

land is farmed What about:

  • O conveys the land to A until the land is farmed
  • O conveys the land to A and her heirs while the

land is not farmed tg A’s FSD

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Fee Simple Determinable (FSD) – FUTURE INTEREST: tg X’s FSD Possibility of Reverter (P/R) to Grantor:

  • Inherent in grant
  • Automatic

O’s P/R

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Possibility of Reverter (P/R):

  • Not Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • (Most Likely) Not Devisable

What does Possibility of Reverter become?

  • Fee Simple Absolute

tg X’s FSD O’s P/R

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Fee Simple on Condition Subsequent (FS/CS):

  • Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable

tg X’s FS/CS

  • Requires Re-entry/Not Automatic !
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Creation of a Fee Simple Condition Subsequent:

  • O conveys the land to A and her heirs, but if the land is

farmed, then O and her heirs may renter and claim the land What about:

  • O conveys the land to A and her heirs as long as

the land is not farmed tg A’s FS/CS

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Fee Simple on Condition Subsequent (FS/CS) – FUTURE INTEREST: tg X’s FS/CS Right of Entry (R/E) to Grantor:

  • Inherent in grant, but usually explicit
  • Requires actual re-entry (Power of Termination)

O’s R/E

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Right of Entry (R/E):

  • Not Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Not Devisable

What does Right of Entry become?

  • Fee Simple Absolute

tg X’s FS/CS O’s R/E

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Future Interest in Grantee:

  • 2. Must be capable of taking effect immediately

upon expiration of preceding estates; and

  • No Gap
  • No Springing Interests

Remainders:

  • 3. Cannot take effect before expiration of

preceding estate.

  • No Cutting Short
  • No Shifting Interests
  • 1. Must follow an expirable estates;
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  • O-> A and her heirs as long as A mines the land,

then to B and her heirs

  • O-> A and her heirs, but if A stops mining the land,

B and her heirs can enter and claim the land

  • O-> A for life, then to B and her heirs
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  • O-> A for life, then four years later, to B and his

heirs

  • O-> A for life, then to B and the heirs of her body
  • O-> A for life, but if B is 18, to B and her heirs
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Classifying the Remainder:

  • 2. No condition other than expiration of

preceding estate Vested Remainder

  • 1. Remainderman is born and

ascertainable; and

  • Otherwise-

Contingent Remainder

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The Remainder: Vested Remainder:

  • Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable

Contingent Remainder:

  • Not Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable
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  • O-> A for life, and then to B’s heir and her heirs
  • O-> A for life, and then if B is 21 or older, to B and

her heirs

  • O-> A for life, then to B and her heirs
  • O-> A for life, but if B is 21 or older, then to B and

her heirs

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Future Interest in Grantee:

  • 2. Must be capable of taking effect immediately

upon expiration of preceding estates; and

  • No Gap
  • No Springing Interests

Remainders:

  • 3. Cannot take effect before expiration of

preceding estate.

  • No Cutting Short
  • No Shifting Interests
  • 1. Must follow an expirable estates;
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Classifying the Remainder:

  • 2. No condition other than expiration of

preceding estate Vested Remainder

  • 1. Remainderman is born and

ascertainable; and

  • Otherwise-

Contingent Remainder

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  • O-> A for life, and then to B’s heir and her heirs
  • O-> A for life, and then if B is 21 or older, to B and

her heirs

– A LE – B CR/FSA – O Reversion

  • O-> A for life, then to B and her heirs
  • O-> A for life, but if B is 21 or older, then to B and

her heirs

– A FSA

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Gifts to a Class 0->A for life, then to A’s children and their heirs

  • A LE
  • A’s Childrens’ VR/STO/FSA

0->A for life, then to T’s grandchildren and their heirs

  • A LE
  • T’s grandchildren’s VR/STO/FSA

Vested Remainder Subject to Open

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One More Present and Future Interest:

  • After 1536

O-> A and her heirs, but if A does not mine the land, then to B and her heirs

  • B/4 1536 – A FSA – invalid remainder
  • A has a Fee Simple on Executory Limitation
  • B has an Executory Interest in Fee Simple
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Fee Simple on Executory Limitation (FS/EL):

  • Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable

Executory Interest (EI):

  • Not Alienable
  • Inheritable
  • Devisable

Present and Future Interests:

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  • No Such Things as Vesting
  • Not Destroyable

Executory Interest:

  • Automatic
  • O-> A and her heirs as long as A mines the land,

then to B and her heirs

  • A FS/EL
  • B EI/FSA
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  • O-> A and her heirs, as long as the land is not use

for commercial purposes, then to B and his heirs

  • A FS/EL
  • B EI/FSA
  • Shifting Executory Interest
  • O-> A for life, then four years later, to B and his

heirs

  • A LE*
  • O Reversion
  • B EI/FSA
  • Springing Executory Interest
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  • 1. O, owner of a fee simple absolute in Blackacre, conveys

Blackacre “to A for life, then to B for life.” (Assume that both A and B are alive at the time of the grant.) What is the state of title in Blackacre?

  • a. What will be the state of title if A dies, survived by B and O?
  • b. What will be the state of title if B dies, survived by A and O?
  • c. What will be the state of title if O dies, then A dies, then B

dies?

  • 2. What will be the state of title if, while O, A, and B are still alive,

B conveys her interest to C?

  • a. What will be the state of title if, after B conveys her interest

to C, A dies, survived by B, C, and O?

  • b. What will be the state of title if, after B conveys her interest

to C, C dies, leaving D as his heir, and is survived by A, B, and O?

  • c. What will be the state of title if, after B conveys her interest

to C, B dies, survived by A, C, and O?

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Last Will & testament Debbie gets everything till she dies. Being of sound mind & this is my w. last will & testament. I leave to my Wife Daphne Craigen all p. real & personal property. 12-17-99 Dalton Craigen

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Last Will & testament Debbie gets everything till she dies. Being of sound mind & this is my w. last will & testament. I leave to my Wife Daphne Craigen all p. real & personal property. 12-17-99 Dalton Craigen

tg Debbie’s FSA

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Last Will & testament Debbie gets everything till she dies. Being of sound mind & this is my w. last will & testament. I leave to my Wife Daphne Craigen all p. real & personal property. 12-17-99 Dalton Craigen

  • Presumption in favor of largest estate
  • Presumption against intestacy
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Last Will & testament Debbie gets everything till she dies. Being of sound mind & this is my w. last will & testament. I leave to my Wife Daphne Craigen all p. real & personal property. 12-17-99 Dalton Craigen

tg Debbie’s LE Ex Dalton’s Reversion

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Last Will & testament Debbie gets everything till she dies. Being of sound mind & this is my w. last will & testament. I leave to my Wife Daphne Craigen all p. real & personal property. 12-17-99 Dalton Craigen

  • Presumption that express clause controls later,

subsidiary provisions

  • Presumption against disinheritance of children
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Last Will & testament Debbie gets everything till she dies. Being of sound mind & this is my w. last will & testament. I leave to my Wife Daphne Craigen all p. real & personal property. 12-17-99 Dalton Craigen

tg Debbie’s LE Ex Debbie’s VR/FSA

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Brownson’s LE tg Ex Jackson’s VR/FSA

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  • What type of waste alleged?

–Majority’s rule? –Dissent’s rule?

  • Voluntary Waste (Affirmative)
  • Permissive Waste (Passive)
  • Both Objective
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Ameliorative Waste

PBR’s LE tg Ex Melm’s Reversion