Wisconsin Statutes 700.02 – Classification of interests in property as to duration
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Interests in property are classified as to duration as:
Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 700.02
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- 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.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; "year" alone means "year of our Lord". See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1) A fee simple absolute;
(2) A defeasible fee simple which may be a fee simple determinable automatically expiring upon the occurrence of a stated event, a fee simple subject to a condition subsequent with a power in the transferor or the transferor’s successors in interest to reacquire the fee by reason of a breach of the condition, or a fee simple with a remainder over to a person other than the transferor or the transferor’s successors in interest to take effect upon the occurrence of a stated event; for purposes of this subsection, a stated event can be either the happening, or the nonhappening, of a specified occurrence, and can be either certain or not certain to happen;
(3) An interest for life, which may be created for the duration of a life or lives of one or more human beings;
(4) An interest for years, which is any interest the duration of which is described in units of a year or multiples or divisions thereof;
(5) A periodic interest, which will continue for successive periods of a year, or successive periods of a fraction of a year, unless terminated;
(6) An interest at will, which is terminable at the will of either the transferor or the transferee and has no designated period of duration.