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Property Law (Real Property) Practice Exam

Practice Property Law (Real Property) exam questions covering core doctrines, issue spotting, applied analysis, and exam-ready explanations.

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A practical sequence that moves from issue maps to questions, cases, and IRAC planning.

115 min plan

120 min

Map the issues and elements

Start with estates in land and future interests and turn each coverage area into an issue checklist.

230 min

Attempt the free diagnostic quiz

Use the first score to identify weak topics before reading long notes.

335 min

Brief leading authorities

For each case, capture facts, issue, rule, reasoning, exam use, and current-law status.

430 min

Draft an IRAC answer plan

Use landlord-tenant law to practise issue spotting, authority selection, and balanced conclusions.

Syllabus coverage

01. Estates in Land and Future Interests

Present possessory estates (fee simple absolute, fee simple determinable, fee simple subject to condition subsequent, life estate, life estate pur autre vie)

Future interests in grantor (possibility of reverter, right of entry, reversion)

Future interests in transferee (remainder: vested, contingent, subject to open; executory interest: shifting, springing)

Rule Against Perpetuities: common law classic formulation, modern wait-and-see reform, applicability to options and rights of first refusal

Transferability and destructibility of contingent remainders and executory interests

02. Landlord-Tenant Law

Types of tenancies: term of years, periodic tenancy, tenancy at will, tenancy at sufferance; creation and termination

Landlord's duties: delivery of possession, covenant of quiet enjoyment, implied warranty of habitability, and statutory housing codes

Tenant's duties: payment of rent, no waste, duty to repair (common law vs. modern statutory duties)

Assignment vs. sublease: privity of estate and privity of contract, effect on landlord-tenant relationship

Eviction proceedings: actual eviction, constructive eviction, retaliatory eviction, and the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment

Security deposits and fixtures: tenant's right to remove trade fixtures, rules on security deposit return

03. Real Property Contracts and Conveyancing

Statute of Frauds: requirement of writing for sale of land, part performance exception, exceptions for short-term leases

Contract for sale: formation, earnest money, equitable conversion (risk of loss), and time-of-essence clauses

Marketable title: implied in every land sale contract, defects rendering title unmarketable, time for title search

Deeds: requirements for valid deed (intent, delivery, acceptance), types (general warranty, special warranty, quitclaim)

Recording acts: race, notice, race-notice, and pure notice statutes; chain of title and wild deeds

Title insurance and closing: role of escrow, title abstract, and the American (Torrens) land registration system in some states

04. Land Use Controls

Zoning: enabling acts, comprehensive plan, Euclidean zoning, aesthetic and sign regulations, spot zoning challenge

Nonconforming uses: legal nonconforming use doctrine, amortization periods, prohibitions on expansion or reconstruction

Variances and special exceptions: criteria for area variances (practical difficulty/unnecessary hardship) and use variances (unnecessary hardship), special use permits

Eminent domain: public use requirement, just compensation, regulatory takings (Penn Central factors, per se takings under Lucas, exactions under Nollan/Dolan)

Private land use controls: restrictive covenants (creation, enforcement, defenses: changed conditions, unclean hands, abandonment), equitable servitudes (touch and concern, notice, privity), homeowners' association rules

05. Easements, Profits, and Licenses

Express easements: creation by grant (deed) or reservation, necessity of Statute of Frauds compliance, duration

Implied easements: easement by necessity (strict necessity for access to landlocked parcels), easement implied from prior use (quasi-easement) with requirements of apparent, continuous, and necessary at severance

Prescriptive easements: elements (open, notorious, adverse, continuous for the statutory period), tacking, exclusive use not required

Scope and use: limitations on overburdening, maintenance, and repair rights, changes in technology (conservation of the right, not extension)

Transferability: easements appurtenant (run with the land) vs. in gross (personal, generally not transferable unless commercial); profits à prendre

Termination: release, merger, abandonment (non-use plus intent), destruction of servient estate, prescription, estoppel, expiration

06. Mortgages and Security Interests

Mortgage theories: title theory (mortgagee holds legal title) vs. lien theory (mortgagor retains title, mortgagee has a lien) vs. intermediate theory; implications for rights and remedies

Transfer of interests: due-on-sale clauses in mortgages, assumption of mortgage vs. taking subject to, liability of transferor

Foreclosure: judicial foreclosure (lawsuit, deficiency judgment) vs. nonjudicial foreclosure (power of sale, waiver of deficiency); strict compliance with statutory procedure

Redemption: equitable redemption (before foreclosure sale, right to cure default and reinstate loan) and statutory redemption (post-sale period in some states); anti-clogging doctrine

Priorities: order of liens, effect of recording, purchase money mortgages (priority over other liens), subordinate agreements, future advances under a mortgage

Deed in lieu of foreclosure: consensual transfer to avoid foreclosure, no deficiency, may still have title issues (junior liens)

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England & WalesPrimary

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Common law comparison

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United States

Useful for bar-style multiple choice and federal/state contrast notes where reviewed.

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Last reviewed: 2026-06-03
Confidence note: Generated from public syllabus and current-law guardrails; verify jurisdiction-specific changes before relying on local rules

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