Mock MCQ Year 1

Right of survivorship and the four unities are two advantages of:

• Freehold Estates

• Periodic Tenancies

• Joint Tenancy

A unilateral contract is a contract whereby only one party promises to perform an act if the other party performs a non- stipulated act

• True

• False

The requirements for a valid and binding contract:

• Offer, acceptance, certainty, practicality, and intention to create legal relations.

• Offer, acceptance, consideration, and intention to create legal relations.

• Offer, acceptance, certainty, consideration, and reasonableness.

The four unities are;

• unities of possession, interest, time and co-ownership

• unities of possession, time, title and interest

• unities of possession, survivorship, time and title

Destruction of one of the four unities is also described as;

• severance of joint tenancy

• severance of tenancy in common

• Severance of title

The Family House Protection Act, 1974

• gives a spouse the right to veto the sale of the family home

• gives a spouse the right to suspend the sale of the family home

• Neither one

What are the ways a dispossessed landowner can regain his land;

• visit the land on a regular basis, graze livestock on the land or erect some structure

• visit the land on an irregular basis, graze livestock on the land or erect some structure

• visit the land when allowed and request livestock to be graze on it

Michael died and his estate passed to the beneficiaries of his will because:

• He held a part 4 tenancy

• He held a joint tenancy

• He held a tenancy in common

A legal doctrine that allows a person to claim a property right in land owned by another is known as:

• Adverse Possession

• Deasy’s Act 1860

• A Unilateral Contract

Adverse possession can occur without the knowledge of both the landowner and the squatter based on which case:

• Murphy v Murphy 1980

• Donahue V Stevens 1932

• Murphy v Murphy 1982