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Ch1 Definitions Flashcards

1
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Greek goddess protector of boundaries

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Terminus

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Challenge, dispute. (Middle English)

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Calenge

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Strife, contention. (Old English)

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Ceast

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4
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Boundary (Gaelic)

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Erioch

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5
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Division, boundary. (Old French)

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Devise

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Strife, dispute (old English)

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Flit

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7
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End, boundary. (Welsh)

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Fyn

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8
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Marker boundary blaze on tree (old Norse)

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Grima

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Landmark boundary, settlement on a boundary (Old Norse)

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Ra’

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10
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Boundary, boundary creek. (Old Danish)

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Skial

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11
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Boundary (Welsh)

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Terfyn

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12
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Dispute (Old English)

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Threap

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13
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International boundary between nations or between subdivisions of nations

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Macro boundary

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Boundary on a local level, such as between land grants or, possibly, individual parcels of land.

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Micro boundary

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15
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Trees are marked and identified in field notes as

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Line tree or Tree on line

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16
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Terminal points

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Corners

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17
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A new survey that identifies the existing condition of the boundary lines at the time of the recent conveyance but written in terms of the original description.

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Retracement

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18
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Written document or legal instrument by which one can claim ownership to a separate and distinct identifiable parcel of land or property.

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Land title

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19
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Means or vehicle, usually documents, by which one acquires an estate.

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Title

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20
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Attributes that a person may hold by being a landowner

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Rights

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21
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any right, claim, or privilege that an individual has toward property

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Interest

22
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Old English term for boundary

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Maere

23
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Assorted rights, both corporeal and incorporeal, that are held together by ownership or title.

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Bundle of rights

24
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Highest ownership interest in land

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Fee simple absolute

25
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If no heirs are produced by the grantee, the estate reverts to the grantor

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Fee tail or Estate tail

26
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Freehold estate that lasts only the life of the person

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Life estate

27
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An estate that lasts the life of someone other than the holder of the estate

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Estate per autre vie

28
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The purchaser has to pay the seller a payment in money at specific intervals, theoretically, forever

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Quitrent

29
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(Latin for “the law of the place”)[1] is a shorthand version of the choice of law rules that determine the lex causae (the laws chosen to decide a case).

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Lex loci

30
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set of doctrines in which a court prevents a litigant from taking an action the litigant normally would have the right to take, in order to prevent an inequitable result.

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Estoppel

31
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Fixed immovable permanent property

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Real property

32
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Property that is consumable, can be destroyed, or is movable at will.

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Personal property

33
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Means by which one can claim just or legal possession to a parcel of land

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Title

34
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An estate in which a future event must be met. The title is conveyed on the condition that certain things will be done or not done within a time limit.

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Defensible fee simple estate

35
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Estate limited to the life of the person holding it

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Estate for life

36
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Created by a lease between two parties whose relationship is that of a landlord and tenant

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Estate for years

37
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Estate that may be terminated at any time as described by law or contract.

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Estate at will

38
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One of the bundle of rights that enjoys a boundary. An interest that one person has in the land of another. A non possessory right.

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Easment

39
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Permits the possessor of the easement to do some physical act on, under, or over the lands of another party

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Affirmative or Positive easement

40
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The land an easement benefits

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Dominant estate

41
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The land which an easement is attached

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Servient estate

42
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an easement that is intended to benefit a particular piece of land (dominant estate/tenement) rather than a particular individual.

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Appurtenant easement

43
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Holder of the dominant estate can prevent the servient estate holder from some use of the property. This prevents landowners from building or altering their land in such a way as to block sunlight, air, or water flowing in a defined channel, or to take away lateral support to adjacent property.

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Negative easement

44
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Easement to an individual for a specific purpose

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Easement in gross

45
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An easement that exists only by necessity because no other means of egress and ingress exists. Once an alternative means is available the easement ceases to exist

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Easement by necessity

46
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Easement created by:
Adverse use without permission 
Open and notorious 
Continuous use
For a specific purpose 
Use for the statutory period
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Easement by prescription

47
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Personal, revocable, and usually unassignable permission or authority to do acts on the land of another without possession of an interest in the land

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License

48
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Restriction or a limited real right over another person’s property that entitles the holder to certain powers of use and enjoyment or prohibitions of use in relation to that property

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Servitude

49
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An easement is a type of

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Real servitude

50
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Is established for the benefit of a particular estate of land and is held for the benefit of the estate and not the individual.

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Predial servitude

51
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An agreement between persons or parties that restricts the use of a freehold property

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Covenant

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