NC Real Estate Exam - Chapter 2 & 4

Personal property attached to real property is prevented from becoming real property by which of the following?

• value

• an appurtenance

• security agreement & financing statement

• mineral rights

Which of the following is a right in the property of another that results from ownership in a particular parcel of real estate?

• easement in gross

• appurtenant easement

• license

• condemnation

Which of the following is (are) correct?

• An easement provides a nonpossessory interest in land.

• The land on which an easement exists is the dominant tenement.

• The land that benefits from an easement is the servient tenement.

• All of the above.

Easements may be created in all of the following EXCEPT:

• condemnation

• dedication

• prescription

• assessment

An easement is terminated:

• when the purpose for which the easement was created ceases to exist.

• when the adjoining dominant & servient tenements are combines into one tract of land.

• by abandonment of the easement by the dominant owner.

• all of the above.

If a property owner gives a specific person permission to cross his property, this is a(n):

• easement in gross

• easement appurtenant

• lease

• encroachment

The creation of an easement by condemnation results from the exercise of which of the following?

• prescription

• eminent domain

• dedication

• implication

A fee simple determinable:

• is an example of a nonfreehold estate.

• typically stipulates the conveyance is 'as long as' it is used for a particular purpose.

• is an example of pur autre vie (for the life of another).

• is an example of freehold rights until the original owner's rights are determined to be invalid.

If a widow inherits an estate by will granting her the right of use and possession of a parcel of land for the rest of her life, with the provision that the estate will go to her children in fee simple upon her death, she has received:

• an inheritable freehold estate

• a life estate with remainder

• a life estate pur autre vie

• none of the above

The highest and best form of estate in real property is which of the following?

• appurtenant easement

• defeasible fee

• life estate in reversion

• fee simple absolute