1. Rights & Terms Of Realty

Question 0

LITTORAL RIGHTS

Answer 0

Applies to lake or ocean rights

Own to high water mark

Question 1

RIPARIAN RIGHTS

Answer 1

Applies to river or stream rights

Own to the middle of river if you can’t navigate rive

Question 2

PRIOR APPROPRIATION

Answer 2

Government to administer the right of water within the state

Question 3

ESTOVERS

Answer 3

Right of the tenant to use wood of owner in a lease situation for needs only

Question 4

EMBLEMENTS

Answer 4

Regarded as personal property

The fruit of the crop

Question 5

WASTE

Answer 5

LESSOR or LIFE ESTATE holder fails to keep realty in the same condition they received

Question 6

SEVERANCE

Answer 6

Turning realty into Personal Property

Question 7

ALLODIAL LAND SYSTEM

Answer 7

The basis of real property law whereby individuals can hold clear title to real property and have full ownership rights - however, you must use it or lose it

Question 8

ADVERSE POSSESSION

Answer 8

Acquisition of property by continuous, actual, open, and notorious use of the land of another without their permission for a specific period of time

Question 9

TACKING

Answer 9

Combining successive periods of continuous use or occupation of real property to establish adverse possession or prescriptive easement

Question 10

LICENSE

Answer 10

Privilege to be on someone’s property
Can be cancelled by LICENSOR (owner) at anytime
Privilege attaches to the person, not the realty

Question 11

ENCROACHMENT

Answer 11

Illegal physical extension on another’s property, such as a wall or fence

Question 12

ENCUMBRANCES

Answer 12

Anything that affects value of realty including a lien

Question 13

FIXTURE

Answer 13

An object that was once personal property and has been attached to realty in a permanent way

Question 14

TRADE FIXTURE

Answer 14

A business related article installed by a tenant under terms of a lease and removable by tenant before lease expires, failure to do so, gives LESSOR ownership, called accessio

Question 15

TANGIBLE/CORPOREAL

Answer 15

Visible value of realty, so etching you can touch e.g. a house

Question 16

INTANGIBLE/INCORPOREAL

Answer 16

Invisible value of realty, more of a right, something you can’t touch e.g. water or sun rights

Question 17

DATUM

Answer 17

A horizontal plane from which heights above or below sea level are measured with the original datum in New York City harbor

Question 18

BENCHMARK

Answer 18

Permanent metal plates through tofu cities in U.S. To derive elevation heights

Question 19

INCHOATE

Answer 19

A dormant spouse’s right in realty while both are alive in a non-community property state

Question 20

ALLUVIUM

Answer 20

Addition of soil and rock

Question 21

RELECTION

Answer 21

An addition of land by receding water