§ 33-201 Duration of interest; fee tail prohibited
§ 33-202 Estates as property interest; freeholds; chattels real; chattel interests
§ 33-203 Right to possession of lands; estates in possession; estates in expectancy
§ 33-204 Estates in expectancy; reversions; future estates; remainders
§ 33-205 Vested future estates; contingent future estates
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Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 33 > Chapter 2 > Article 1 - Definitions and Classifications

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.