Chapter 29

How title passes

Wills, heirs, adverse possession and other ways land changes hands

An explorable chapter on transfer of title for the real estate exam: voluntary and involuntary alienation, wills, devises and bequests, executors and probate, intestate succession and administrators, escheat, adverse possession, tacking and quiet title, partition, accretion and avulsion.

1. 29.1
   Voluntary and involuntary alienationThe owner chooses, or the law decides
2. 29.2
   Transfer by willTestate: the owner decides, and the court supervises
3. 29.3
   Without a willIntestate: the statute decides
4. 29.4
   Adverse possessionLong, open, hostile possession becomes title
5. 29.5
   Three generations of one farmPartition, nature, and every way title moved

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