{"id":637,"date":"2012-05-09T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=637"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:06","slug":"automatic-reverter-creates-fee-simple-determinable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2012\/05\/09\/automatic-reverter-creates-fee-simple-determinable\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic reverter creates fee simple determinable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a straightforward application of traditional doctrine, a Tennessee court ruled that a deed condition that stated that a lot &#8220;shall automatically revert to Seller in fee simple&#8221; if the buyer does not comply with stated conditions (to install a waterline within a year) creates a fee simple determinable that transfers title automatically.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tncourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/lasatermopn.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lasater v. Hawkins,<\/a>\u00a02011 WL 4790971 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2011)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/estates-and-future-interests\/\" rel=\"tag\">Estates and Future Interests<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/restraints-on-alienation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Restraints on Alienation<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a straightforward application of traditional doctrine, a Tennessee court ruled that a deed condition that stated that a lot &#8220;shall automatically revert to Seller in fee simple&#8221; if the buyer does not comply with stated conditions (to install a waterline within a year) creates a fee simple determinable that transfers title automatically.\u00a0Lasater v. Hawkins,\u00a02011 WL 4790971 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-and-future-interests","category-real-estate-transactions","category-restraints-on-alienation"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}