--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 eas.e.m.e.nt?
--3. In what case does a right of way pa.s.s 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 ent.i.tled 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?
--10. What is an estate at will? Are such estates common? In what case are they held to be tenancies from year to year? What if a tenant for years hold over after his lease?
--11. What turns leases from uncertain terms into leases from year to year? Who is strictly a tenant at will? Can he be dispossessed without previous notice to quit?
--12. What is an estate at sufferance? What are the rights of a landlord and a tenant by sufferance, respectively?
Chapter LIV.
--1. Define contract. What is an executory contract? An express contract?
An implied contract?
--2. What is a specialty? A simple or parol contract? Define _parol_.
What effect has parol evidence upon written contracts?
--3. Who are deemed incapable of contracting? How are contracts made by such persons voided? How enforced? What is the general rule?
--4. What is the rule in regard to drunkards?
--5. What is mentioned as the second requisition to a valid contract? How must a.s.sent be given?
--6. What is next mentioned as necessary to a valid contract? What is a consideration?
--7. What is the effect of mutual promises? How must they be made? How when the parties are distant?
--8. Why are gratuitous promises void? In what case are subscriptions binding?
--9. Why can not payment be lawfully claimed for gratuitous services? In what cases is a person bound to pay for unasked labor?
--10. What else is mentioned as necessary to a valuable consideration?
What kind of impossibility will not void a contract?
--11. What is said of illegal and immoral considerations?