Chapter 9: Acquisitions and Conveyances

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Chapter 9 Acquisitions and Conveyances

• Lecture Outline

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Voluntary Transfers of Real Property

• Deeds
• Written
• Execution
• Description
• Delivery
• Acceptance
• Granting clause
• Competent parties
• Grantee

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Voluntary Transfers of Real Property (cont.)

• Not required for deeds
• Acknowledgment
• Recording
• Consideration
• Manner of taking title
• Witnesses and seals
• Dates

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Voluntary Transfers of Real Property (cont.)

• Types of Deeds
• Grant deed
• Quit claim deed
• Warranty deed
• Sheriffs deed
• Tax deed
• Trustees deed
• Gift deed
• Void and voidable deeds
• Reservation in a deed
• Exception in a deed
• Dedication

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Involuntary Transfers of Real Property

• Adverse possession
• Eminent domain
• Inverse condemnation
• Severance damage
• Government seizure

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Transfer of Real Property upon Death

• Testate succession
• Type of wills
• Formal will
• Holographic will
• Nuncupative will
• Ademption
• Simultaneous death
• Intestate succession
• Probate
• Living trusts