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License in real property

A license in real property is personal, revocable permission to enter or use another person's land for a stated purpose.

Official area

Property Ownership

Knowledge cluster

Property rights and burdens

Learning sequence

Define, distinguish, apply, retrieve

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Exam purpose

Recognize the rule, then reject the nearest look-alike.

Georgia lens

Apply the state distinction only when the facts call for it.

Connected terms

Connected to 4 terms and one official content area.

What does License in real property mean in real estate?

A license in real property is personal, revocable permission to enter or use another person's land for a stated purpose. It ordinarily creates no interest in the land.

How is License in real property different from the closest exam answer?

A license is permission and is generally revocable. An easement is a property right that may bind successors according to its creation and recording.

What is the Georgia-specific rule?

The national distinction applies in Georgia. Written facts, payment, reliance, and other circumstances can matter in actual disputes, but exam questions usually test revocable permission versus an easement right.

Worked exam example

Scenario

An owner allows a neighbor to park in the driveway during a weekend event and may withdraw that permission later.

Decision rule

A license is permission and is generally revocable. An easement is a property right that may bind successors according to its creation and recording.

What is the most common exam trap?

Trap correction

Repeated use does not automatically transform permission into an easement.

Memory cue: Repeated use does not automatically transform permission into an easement.

Original exam check

Apply the definition

Which statement correctly explains License in real property?

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Related terms to learn next

Easement appurtenant

An easement appurtenant is a nonpossessory right that benefits one parcel, the dominant tenement, and burdens another parcel, the servient tenement.

Easement in gross

An easement in gross is a nonpossessory right to use land that benefits a person or organization rather than another parcel of land.

Encroachment

An encroachment is an unauthorized physical intrusion by an improvement onto another parcel or into a protected area, such as a fence, garage, or roof crossing a boundary line.

Adverse possession

Adverse possession is a method of acquiring title through possession that satisfies every statutory element for the required period, commonly including possession that is actual, open, notorious, exclusive, continuous, and hostile to the true owner's rights.

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License in real property quick answers

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What is License in real property?

A license in real property is personal, revocable permission to enter or use another person's land for a stated purpose.

What is License in real property commonly confused with?

A license is permission and is generally revocable. An easement is a property right that may bind successors according to its creation and recording.

How does Georgia treat License in real property?

The national distinction applies in Georgia. Written facts, payment, reliance, and other circumstances can matter in actual disputes, but exam questions usually test revocable permission versus an easement right.