The government class book: Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White)
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The government class book: Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.
Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White)
United States -- Politics and government -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
§2. What is necessary to secure possession to the purchaser? Where are
conveyances recorded in this state?
§3. How long, in come states, are first purchasers secure before
recording? What is the law in this state? What claim does a purchaser
thus dispossessed still retain? Can you tell why conveyances are
required to be recorded at all?
§4. How are deeds proved? Before whom are thoy acknowledged? How are
they recorded?
§5. What is meant by _fee-simple_? What does the grantor in a warranty
deed bind himself to do? In what does such deed differ from a quit-claim
deed?
§6. What is a mortgage? How is the balance of the purchase money usually
secured? How is the money raised?
§7. Why does a wife join with her husband in a conveyance? What is the
interest thus retained by a widow called? In what else must a wife join?
Does a wife acknowledge apart from her husband in this state?
Chapter LII.
§1. Define corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments. What are aquatic
rights?
§2. What is a right of way? How is this right obtained? What is an
easement?
§3. In what case does a right of way pass with the land? Give an
example.
§4. In what cases does this right arise from necessity?
§5. When the use of a thing is granted, what is generally granted with
it?
§6. How is a temporary right of way acquired? Does the obstruction of a
private way give the same right?
§7. What is a right by _prescription_? How many years' peaceable use
gives a person such right? What change in this term has been made in
some states? What is it in this state?
§8. What right have the public to the soil of a highway? Who own the
soil? What right and power concerning it do they retain?
§9. What are the rights of the owners of lands adjoining a stream? How
is the use of the water restricted?
§10. How may the right to the use of the water be affected by
prescription?
§11. What is the general and established doctrine on this subject? Must
the use be enjoyed by one person during the whole period to give a
prescriptive right?
Chapter LIII.
§1. What is an estate of inheritance? A _fee_? A _fee-simple_?
§2. What is the writing which conveys an interest in lands for a limited
period called? What means to lease? Define lessor and lessee. What
lenses must be sealed?
§3. How are these limited interests in land divided? What is an estate
for life? How, otherwise than by lease, are life estates acquired?
§4. What is an estate for years?
§5. May a lessee for years underlet without the lessor's leave? For how
long a time?
§6. Who is entitled to the growing crop if the lease expires before
harvest? In what case the tenant?
§7. Does the destruction of rented premises release the tenant from
payment of rent? In what case would he not be liable?
§8. Can a tenant charge his landlord for repairs? What may he do when
the premises have become unsafe or useless?
§9. Where and when must payment of rent be made or tendered?
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