1. Define and differentiate between private property, public property, and common property.
Be sure to discuss the right to exclude others in the context of each type of property. Include examples and differentiate when a term has more than one usage
2. Explain the rule of first possession.
3. Sydney, a wanderer, finds an abandoned ranch in Wyoming and decides to settle there. The record owner finds out 23 years later that Sydney has occupied the abandoned ranch. What is Sydney’s best legal argument that the land is hers?
Be sure to include all elements of any legal theory that supports your answer.
4. What is meant by a life estate in land, and why might one give someone else a life estate rather than a fee simple ownership?
Your answer should include some discussion of reversion and remainder interests.
5. What are the three types of deeds and explain how they differ.
Your discussion should include warranty deeds, special warranty deeds, and quitclaim deeds.
6. What are the different types of easement?
Your answer should include discussion of the legal fence. Give examples. Explain how easements may be acquired. Also, discuss the various types of easements.
7. How can resources be acquired through confusion?
8.You have driven to a local shopping mall in a friend’s car. Explain and give examples of how you might park the car in terms of the three different standards of care depending upon the type of bailment relationship you have entered into with your friend.
Discuss how you might secure the vehicle differently based on the type of bailment relationship.
9. Ronald’s father, Marcus, has lost his home to foreclosure. Ronald wants to make sure that his father has some land of his own for his remaining years. Ronald owns Sunnylake, a plot of land that is located nearby. Ronald knows his father would be happy living on Sunnylake, but he also hopes to develop the land for his own retirement home, when the time comes. Explain what Ronald should do and why.
Your answer should include a discussion of a type of estate available to help Ronald achieve both of his goals.
10. Explain the forms of concurrent ownership through joint tenancy and tenancy in common.
Your answer should include some discussion of the options available in these two forms of concurrent ownership, survivorship rights, if any, and language needed to create the right.