ch1 vocabulray

Question 1

real property

Answer 1

land, attachments, and appurtenances

Question 2

personal property

Answer 2

anything that is not real property. Its main characteristic is movability.

Question 3

appurtenance

Answer 3

a right incidental to the land that is transferred with it.

Question 4

riparian rights

Answer 4

the water rights of a landowner whose land borders on a stream or other FLOWING water. Riparian rights allow only reasonable use of the water.

Question 5

Littoral property

Answer 5

land bordered by a stationary body of water, such as a lake or a pond.

Question 6

appropriative rights-

Answer 6

water right established by obtaining a government permit, and not based on ownership of land beside a body of water.

Question 7

lateral support

Answer 7

the support that a piece of land receives from the surrounding land

Question 8

subjacent support

Answer 8

the support that a piece of land receives from the underlying earth

Question 9

emblements

Answer 9

crops, such as wheat, produced annually through the labor of cultivator

Question 10

trade fixtures

Answer 10

personal property attached to real property by a tenant for use in his trade or business. Trade fixtures are removable by the tenant.

Question 11

metes and bounds

Answer 11

a system of land description in which the boundaries of a parcel of land described by reference to monuments, courses, and distances.

Question 12

monument

Answer 12

a visible marker (natural or artificial) used in a survey or a metes and bounds description to establish the boundaries of a piece of property

Question 13

point of beginning-

Answer 13

the starting point of a metes and bounds description; a monument or a point described by reference to a monument.

Question 14

course

Answer 14

in a metes and bounds description, a direction, stated in terms of a compass bearing

Question 15

distance

Answer 15

in a metes and bounds description, the length of a boundary, measured in any convenient unit of length.

Question 16

government survey

Answer 16

a system of land description in which the land is divided into squares called townships, and each township is, in turn, divided into 36 sections, each one square mile or 640 acres.

Question 17

range

Answer 17

in the government survey system, strip of land six miles wide, running north and south

Question 18

township

Answer 18

in the government survey system, strip of land six miles wide, running east and west.

Question 19

section

Answer 19

one square mile of land, containing 640 acres. there are 36 sections in a township

Question 20

government lot

Answer 20

in the government survey system, a parcel of land that is not regular section (irregular shape due to the curvature of the earth)

Question 21

recorded map

Answer 21

the sytem of description used for subdivided land. the properties within a subdivision are assigned lot numbers on a plat map, which is then recorded. the location and dimensions of a particular lot can be determined by consulting the recorded plat.

Question 22

air lot

Answer 22

a parcel of property above the surface of the earth, not containing any land. for example, a condominium unit on the third floor of the building occupies an air lot.