Suggestions for Land Records Talk Topics

I recently received an e-mail suggested that I cover the following topics in my Land Records Basic Talk scheduled for June:

1.  Yearly quit rents: Colonial land and Lord Baltimore

2.  Warrants of survey, certificates of survey and patents--Sometimes, a person may die after receiving a certificate of survey, for example, but before receiving the land patent.

3. Escheat land--return of land to the proprietor or the state if a landowner committed suicide or of he or she had no heirs.

4. Confiscated property: from the British or the Loyalists in Maryland during the Revolution

5. Condemned property: for railroads, canals, etc. 

I looked up "quit rents" in EOGEN.com, Dick Eastman's Encyclopedia of Online Genealogy, and found no listing, so I quickly added one, but I don't think I'll cover that in my talk, which was included in a basics course, but was meant to supplement information about Probate Records.  For the same reason, I'm not going to go over warrants, surveys or patents in this talk.  After all, I'm only going to be given an hour to maybe a few minutes more, and I'm not going to condense a full course into this talk.  But I think this blog might be a good place to answer all five of these questions, just not all at once.  So to begin:

Quit Rents  from http://www.eogen.com/Quit-Rents

Payment to land proprietors for the privilege of living on patented tracts of land.  These records are also called tax records, and or "debt books" in Maryland. Occasionally when a land was surveyed in Maryland, the patent was delayed until the owner gathered together enough money to pay the quit rents, because until the patent was recorded, quit rents were not collected.  The downside is that when the land was finally patented, quit rents could be assessed from the date of survey.