Present estates and waste — MCQs

Using only the supplied client file and legal resources, prepare an advisory letter explaining the client’s contractual options, evaluating the practical advantages and risks of each option, and recommending a course of action consistent with the client’s stated objectives.

A recorded deed grants the owner of Parcel B "a perpetual right to use the existing twelve-foot driveway across Parcel A for pedestrian and vehicular access to and from Parcel B." When the easement was created, Parcel B contained a residence whose occupants made several vehicle trips each day. A designer later purchased Parcel B, continued living there, and began meeting three or four clients per week in a home office. The designer also proposed widening the driveway to twenty feet to permit two-way traffic. The deed contains no residential-use restriction and says nothing about widening or relocating the driveway. The owner of Parcel A objects both to customer visits and to any physical expansion. Under generally applicable easement principles, which of the following is the most appropriate advice to the designer?

Using only the supplied client file and legal resources, prepare a persuasive demand letter to Seller's counsel explaining why Seller breached the deed covenant covering the disputed eight-foot strip, addressing Seller's notice defense, and proposing a practical cure or monetary resolution.

Using only the supplied file and legal resources, prepare an advisory counseling plan for the supervising attorney's meeting with Tenant. Assess Landlord's repair obligations, whether Tenant presently has a strong constructive-eviction claim, and the legal significance of Tenant remaining in the apartment. Address the helpful and adverse facts, identify the most important evidence that should be preserved or obtained, and recommend a sequenced course of action consistent with Tenant's goals of obtaining prompt repairs while minimizing the risk of an unjustified lease abandonment. Do not draft a complaint or rely on remedies not stated in the supplied resources.

Three friends acquired a house by a deed conveying it “to Alex, Blair, and Casey as joint tenants with right of survivorship.” Each contributed equally, and no separate agreement altered their ownership. Several years later, Alex validly delivered a deed conveying Alex’s entire interest to Alex’s sibling. Blair and Casey did not consent to the conveyance. Alex then died. The sibling asks a lawyer whether Alex’s death caused the sibling’s interest to pass to Blair and Casey by survivorship. No statute changes the generally accepted rules governing concurrent ownership. Which of the following best describes the ownership immediately after Alex’s death?