Estate in land
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| Property law |
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| Part of the common law series |
| Acquisition of property |
| Gift · Adverse possession · Deed |
| Lost, mislaid, or abandoned |
| Treasure trove |
| Alienation · Bailment · License |
| Estates in land |
| Allodial title · Fee simple · Fee tail |
| Life estate · Defeasible estate |
| Future interest · Concurrent estate |
| Leasehold estate · Condominiums |
| Conveyancing of interests in land |
| Bona fide purchaser |
| Torrens title · Strata title |
| Estoppel by deed · Quitclaim deed |
| Mortgage · Equitable conversion |
| Action to quiet title |
| Limiting control over future use |
| Restraint on alienation |
| Rule against perpetuities |
| Rule in Shelley's Case |
| Doctrine of worthier title |
| Nonpossessory interest in land |
| Easement · Profit |
| Covenant running with the land |
| Equitable servitude |
| Related topics |
| Fixtures · Waste · Partition |
| Riparian water rights |
| Lateral and subjacent support |
| Assignment · Nemo dat |
| Other areas of the common law |
| Contract law · Tort law |
| Wills and trusts |
| Criminal Law · Evidence |
An estate in land is an interest in real property that is or may become possessory.
This should be distinguished from an "estate" as used in reference to an area of land, and "estate" as used to refer to property in general.
In property law, the rights and interests associated with an estate in land may be conceptually understood as a "bundle of rights" because of the potential for different parties having different interests in the same real property.
[edit] Categories of estates
Estates in land can be divided into four basic categories:
- Freehold estates: rights of ownership
- fee simple (fee simple absolute)—most rights, least limitations, indefeasible
- fee tail—inalienable rights of inheritance
- conditional, defeasible, or determinable fee—voidable ownership
- life estate—ownership for duration of someone's life
- Leasehold estates: rights of possession and use but not ownership. The lessor (owner/landlord) gives this right to the lessee (tenant). There are four categories of leasehold estates:
- estate for years (tenancy for years)—lease of any length with specific begin and end date
- periodic estate (periodic tenancy)—automatically renewing lease (month to month, week to week)
- estate at will (tenancy at will)—leasehold for no fixed time or period. It lasts as long as both parties desire. Termination is bilateral (either party may terminate at any time) or by operation of law.
- tenancy at sufferance—created when tenant remains after lease expires and becomes a holdover tenant, converts to holdover tenancy upon landlord acceptance; see Forcible Entry and Detainer Statutes
- Types of leases:
- gross lease
- net lease
- percentage lease
- Statutory estates: created by law
- community property
- homestead
- dower—interest a wife has in the property of her husband
- curtesy—interest a husband has in the property of his wife
- tenancy by entirety
- Equitable Estates: neither ownership nor possession
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