C. alienation

Voluntarily or involuntarily transferring or conveying property to another

G. deed

Written instrument used to immediately transfer title to real property
from one person to another

O. granting clause

Words of purchase, such as grants, conveys, transfers, or sells

AA. quitclaim deed

Deed with no warranties

N. gift deed

Deed whose consideration is love and affection

S. involuntary alienation

Transfer of property against the wishes of the owner

M. foreclosure

Legal procedure lenders use to terminate the trustor’s or mortgagor’s
rights in real property to satisfy their liens

DD. trustee’s sale

Foreclosure method taking approximately four months

U. judicial foreclosure

Procedure lender uses to sell a mortgaged property with the involvement
of a court

H. deficiency judgment

Personal judgment against a borrower for the balance of a debt owed
when the security for the loan is insufficient to pay the debt

V. partition action

Court proceeding to settle a dispute between co-owners by dividing their
interests in real property

Z. quiet title action

Court proceeding to establish an individual’s right to ownership of real
property against one or more adverse claimants

CC. tax sale

Forced sale of real property by the county to satisfy delinquent taxes

K. execution sale

Forced sale of property to satisfy a money judgment

I. eminent domain

Power of the government to take private property for public use

J. escheat

Property reverts to the state because the deceased owner left no will and
has no legal heirs

P. holographic will

Will entirely in the handwriting of the testator

E. codicil

Later testamentary instrument that supplements validity or disposition of
an earlier will

Y. probate

Legal process to prove that a will is valid

L. executor

Person named in a will to administer it

BB. settlor

Person who sets up a trust on behalf of a beneficiary

Q. inter vivos

Trust in which the settlor is still alive when the trust is established

R. intestate

Term describing a person who dies without leaving a valid will

T. issue

Descendants of the testator

W. per stirpes

Method of dividing property among the descendants of someone who has
died intestate

B. adverse possession

Obtaining title by occupying land for a statutory time period without the
permission of the owner

A. accretion

Gradual enlargement of land through the accumulation of sediment

D. avulsion

Sudden, perceptible loss of land

F. constructive notice

Notice given by recording a document

X. priority

Order in which deeds are recorded