JURI 550 Quiz 2 Landlord-Tenant Law

JURI 550 Quiz 2 Landlord-Tenant Law

1. A written residential lease must expressly state the implied warranty of habitability to be enforceable. True or False?
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
3. Before a tenant can make a claim of constructive eviction or breach of the implied warranty of habitability, the tenant must:
4. Discrimination in the renting or selling of a residential dwelling is prohibited in which of the following circumstances?
5. Under modern law, residential tenants are provided greater protection regarding the payment of rent. This is so, because of which concept below?
6. Which of the following statements is the most accurate after the modern revolution in residential landlord-tenant law?
7. Summary eviction proceedings have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. The additional significant points of the Court’s holding—besides the issues related to summary eviction, self-help, and bonds—include:
8. A tenancy at sufferance becomes a leasehold interest when a holdover tenant and the landlord agree to a renewal of their expired tenancy.
9. The characteristics of the common law tenancy at will leasehold interest are best described by which of the following statements?
10. Since leases are a conveyance of real property, the lease agreement must be in writing because the Statute of Frauds applies to all such conveyances.
11. Which true tenancy does not require notice of termination?
12. The most important change in the development of landlord-tenant law in the modern era has been:
13. The implied warranty of habitability provides a range of remedy options for a tenant. The remedies include:
14. As a result of the significant revolution in landlord-tenant law, which of the following is the most accurate statement of what is permissible in most states?
15. A residential tenant can abandon the rented dwelling at the time of his choosing even if he owes further obligations to the landlord. True or false?
16. Landlord Larsen owned an office building and Tilley was a tenant. The private trash company hired by Larsen placed the office building’s large trash dumpsters in the parking spaces allotted to tenant Tilley. The trash company repeatedly did this two to three days a week, for six months. In the second month Tilley sent Larsen a letter that complained about the dumpsters and insisted that Larsen make the parking spaces available to Tilley’s customers. When the spaces remained unavailable for another month after the letter, Tilley moved to a new location. A court will likely conclude …
17. Which of the following statements is correct?
18. With regard to possession of leased premises, the majority of states require which of the following?
19. The characteristics of a periodic tenancy leasehold interest are best described by which of the following statements?
20. Given the revolution in landlord-tenant law over the past century, a tenant is afforded greater protection under case law and statutes. Thus, a landlord must obtain the tenant’s consent—which cannot be unreasonably withheld—before the landlord conveys his title to the premises to a buyer.
21. One of the following so-called landlord-tenant relationships has the least characteristics of a tenancy. Which one?
22. Which of the following is the most accurate statement about a commercial tenant’s transfer of his leasehold interest?
23. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 are identical with regard to the scope of prohibition of racial discrimination?
24. The majority of courts hold the landlord who is in the business of renting premises to residential tenants strictly liable for latent defects that existed at the formation of the tenancy and which resulted in injury to the tenant.
25. The contract law concept of mitigation applies to which of the following circumstances?