6 S.R.

Question 0

______ is a reversionary right; if an owner dies without heirs, the property reverts back to the government.

Answer 0

Escheat

Question 1

____ are also known as real estate taxes, or ad valorem taxes.

Answer 1

Property taxes

Question 2

______ power allows governmental bodies to have the right to enact and enforce regulations for the order, safety, health, morals, and general welfare of the public.

Answer 2

Police

Question 3

_______ is the right of the government or a public utility to acquire property that is necessary for public use.

Answer 3

Eminent domain

Question 4

Eminent domain requires condemnation proceedings and _____.

Answer 4

Compensation

Question 5

If a property owner dies intestate it means he or she died without a ______.

Answer 5

Will

Question 6

Residential homestead, agriculture, and commercial are examples of property ________.

Answer 6

Classifications

Question 7

A ______ tax is a property tax that is levied on homeowners and landowners to cover the costs of improvements that will be for the benefit of all upon whom it is imposed.

Answer 7

Special assessment

Question 8

A _____ assessment is an estimate or contractor’s bid for work that has been approved for an improvement, but has not yet been completed.

Answer 8

Pending

Question 9

A _______ assessment has been billed, work is completed, but it has not yet been paid.

Answer 9

Levied

Question 10

______ is defined as the land and natural resources on or under it, and anything permanently fixed to it.

Answer 10

Real estate or real property

Question 11

The types of real property rights are land surface rights (or sub surface rights), and ________.

Answer 11

Sky or air rights

Question 12

Anything attached to the land that is intended to be permanent is considered a/an_______, and part of the real estate.

Answer 12

Improvement

Question 13

______ are the rights to use, control, or occupy the space above a designated property.

Answer 13

Air rights

Question 14

_______ rights do not mean the landowner owns the water.

Answer 14

Water

Question 15

_____ are crops or products of the land that legally belong to a tenant.

Answer 15

Emblements

Question 16

The three types of legal descriptions are Metes and Bounds, Government Public Land Survey System (Also known as the Government Rectangular Survey System), and _______.

Answer 16

Lot and Block survey system

Question 17

A _____ legal description always has the words “point of beginning” in it.

Answer 17

Metes and bounds

Question 18

A/an _____ is a burden, obstruction, or impediment on property that lessens its value or makes it less marketable.

Answer 18

Encumbrance

Question 19

An easement in _____ is typically for utility company rights.

Answer 19

Gross

Question 20

A/an ______ is an easement where one piece of land (the dominant estate) benefits by the easement, and the other piece of land (the servient estate) has the burden of the easement.

Answer 20

Easement appurtenant

Question 21

A/an ______ easement is created by a contract, deed, or will.

Answer 21

Express

Question 22

An easement by _____ is created when selling a piece of land, while retaining rights.

Answer 22

Implication

Question 23

An easement by ______ is created by acquiring rights after years of usage.

Answer 23

Prescription

Question 24

A restrictive ______ is a legal obligation, imposed in a deed by the seller upon the buyer of real estate to do, or not to do, something.

Answer 24

Covenant

Question 25

A ________ is a recorded creditor’s claim against property to secure repayment of a debt.

Answer 25

Lien

Question 26

A/an ______ is a building, a part of a building, or an obstruction that physically intrudes upon, overlaps, or trespasses upon the property of another.

Answer 26

Encroachment