Real Property on the MBE
Real Property questions are usually solvable by working the chain of title carefully. These articles cover present estates and future interests, cotenancy, the landlord-tenant relationship, land sale contracts and deeds, the recording acts, mortgages and priority, easements and covenants, adverse possession, and the Rule Against Perpetuities.
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- The Rule Against Perpetuities on the MBE: A Clear Explanation
The Rule Against Perpetuities is notoriously confusing. Here's a clear breakdown of the rule, how to analyze it, and how it's tested on the MBE.
- Restrictive Covenants on the MBE: Real Covenants vs. Equitable Servitudes
Covenants that run with the land are heavily tested. Learn the elements for real covenants (at law) and equitable servitudes, and how they differ on the...
- Recording Acts on the MBE: Race, Notice, and Race-Notice Statutes
Recording acts determine priority of competing claims. Learn the three types — race, notice, and race-notice — and how to analyze chain of title problems.
- Real Estate Contracts on the MBE: Statute of Frauds to Closing
Real estate contracts have unique rules. Learn the statute of frauds for land, marketable title, equitable conversion, risk of loss, and merger doctrine.
- Mortgages on the MBE: Types, Priority, and Foreclosure
Master mortgage law for the MBE — lien theory vs. title theory, purchase money mortgages, recording priority, transfer rules, and foreclosure procedures.
- How to Memorize Future Interests for the Bar Exam
Future interests are one of the hardest topics to memorize. Here's a practical system using active recall to lock in remainders, reversions, and executo...
- MBE Real Property: Complete Subject Study Guide
Complete study guide for MBE Real Property covering all 5 NCBE categories. Each category is weighted equally at about 20% — here's how to prepare.
- Marketable Title on the MBE: What Buyers Are Entitled To
Every real estate contract includes an implied covenant of marketable title. Learn what makes title unmarketable, when it must be delivered, and availab...
- Landlord-Tenant Law on the MBE: Leases, Duties, and Remedies
Landlord-tenant questions are some of the most practical on the MBE. Learn lease types, possession duties, habitability, transfers, and termination.
- Future Interests on the MBE: Remainders, Reversions, and Executory Interests
Future interests are one of the most challenging MBE topics. Learn vested remainders, contingent remainders, executory interests, and possibilities of r...
- Fixtures on the MBE: When Personal Property Becomes Real Property
Fixture disputes involve whether an item attached to land becomes part of the real property. Learn the fixture test factors and trade fixture exception.
- Estates in Land on the MBE: Fee Simple, Life Estate, and Defeasible Fees
Master present estates for the MBE — fee simple absolute, defeasible fees (determinable, subject to condition subsequent, subject to executory interest)...
- Equitable Conversion on the MBE: Risk of Loss in Real Estate Contracts
Who bears the risk when property is damaged between contract and closing? Learn the equitable conversion doctrine and the Uniform Vendor and Purchaser R...
- Easement vs. License on the MBE: Key Differences
Easements and licenses both grant use of another's land but with very different legal consequences. Learn the distinctions the MBE tests.
- Easements on the MBE: Creation, Scope, and Termination
Master easement law for the MBE — express, implied, prescriptive, and by necessity. Learn scope, transfer, and the ways easements terminate.
- Deeds on the MBE: Requirements, Types, and Delivery
A deed must meet specific requirements to transfer title. Learn deed types (general warranty, special warranty, quitclaim), delivery rules, and covenant...
- Cotenancy on the MBE: Joint Tenancy vs. Tenancy in Common
Joint tenancy and tenancy in common are tested differently on the MBE. Learn creation, severance, partition, and the rights of cotenants.
- Adverse Possession on the MBE: Elements and Common Traps
Adverse possession transfers title without a deed. Learn the elements (OCEAN: Open, Continuous, Exclusive, Actual, Notorious/Hostile) and MBE testing pa...
Real Property in two columns
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