Yearly Archives: 2022

Knowing that he was trespassing, Gordon entered Donald’s land in 2005 and camped there in his motorhome every summer until July 2014, when Donald discovered him and told him to leave. Gordon did not leave until the end of the summer, and he returned the following summer. Assuming that Donald lives in a majority jurisdiction […]

Jack owns a horseback riding club and Shiba sued to stop members of Jack’s club from riding across her property. Jack claims that his club has an easement over Shiba’s property based on a written agreement in 1995 between Jack and Shiba’s predecessors to allow riding for 75 years. Although Shiba had notice of this […]

Emily leased a commercial building from Ginny for one year beginning January 1, 2018, with a plan to use the premises for a machine repair shop. Emily moved expensive equipment into the building and began accepting engines into the shop for repair. In February 2018 the rainy season arrived, and Emily discovered that water was […]

Kay owns Redacre (RA) in fee simple absolute and conveys it to her children, Patty, Ron, and Jack as tenants in common. Patty conveys “all my interest in RA to Les and his heirs.” Jack dies, leaving a will devising “all my real property” to Fran. Ron then conveys all of his interest in RA […]

When Phil retired and moved out-of-state, he gifted his house to his son, Luke. Phil gave Luke a quitclaim deed. Although Luke accepted the deed, he never recorded it and never moved into the house. Over the next two years, Phil grew impatient with Luke’s lack of interest in property and instead donated the house […]

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Libby leased an apartment to Troy by written lease for two years ending on the last day of February 2017. The lease provided for $1000 monthly rent. Troy occupied the apartment and paid the rent for the first ten months of the lease term until he moved to a new job in another city. Without […]

Nick orally agreed to sell his only vineyard to Hari for $100,000 cash. There was no written contract, but Hari gave Nick a check for $1,000, on which was written, “Earnest money toward sale of Nick’s vineyard in Paso Robles, California for $100,000.” Nick did not deposit the check and instead held it in his […]

Rick and Hava were neighbors. Hava remodeled her house and needed to install a new underground sewage line to support the increased house size. Due to the bedrock on her property, it was very expensive and inconvenient to connect the new sewage line to the public system. It was much more reasonable to connect to […]

Ruby bought a house for $300,000. To help finance the purchase, she borrowed (1) $100,000 from Wells Fargo secured by a mortgage on the home and (2) $150,000 from Guillaume secured by a mortgage on the home. Wells Fargo recorded its mortgage, but Guillaume did not do so. Ruby later sold the house to Tam, […]