Chapter 2 Flashcards
Metes and Bounds
A term used in describing the boundary lines of land, seeing forth all the boundary lines together with their terminal points and angles.
Government Surveys
A method of specifying the location of parcel of land using prime meridians, base lines, standard parallels, guide meridians, townships and sections.
Base Lines
A series of government survey lines running north and south at six-mile intervals starting with the principal meridian and forming the east and west boundaries of township.
Range Lines
A series of government survey lines running north and south at six-mile intervals starting with the principal meridian and forming the east and west boundaries of townships.
Principal Meridians
Imaginary north-south lines which intersect base lines to form a starting point for the measurement of land.
Township
In the survey of public lands of the United States, a territorial subdivision six miles long, six miles wide and containing 36 sections, each one mile square, located between two range lines and two township lines.
Air Rights
The rights in real property to the reasonable use of the air space above the surface of the land.
Datum
The Mean Sea at New York Harbor
Bench Mark
A monument used to establish the elevation of the point, usually relative to Mean Sea Level, but often to some local datum.
Personal property is generally referred to as that which is movable….?
A. True
B. False
A. True
Personal property is also known as chattel…..?
A. True
B. False
A. True
Which of the following describes the boundary lines of land, seeing forth all the boundary lines together with their terminal points and angles…..
A. Government Survey
B. Lot and Block
C. Metes and Bounds
D. Township
C. Metes and Bounds
This type of property description is often the least accurate….?
A. Government Survey
B. Lot and Block
C. Metes and Bounds
D. Township
C. Metes and Bounds
That which is immovable is generally known as….?
A. Chattel
B. Emblements
C. Personal Property
D. Real Property
D. Real Property
Land, and generally whatever is erected upon the land, is referred to as…?
A. Chattel
B. Personal property
C. Real estate
D. Emblements
D. Emblements
Land, and generally whatever is erected upon the land, is referred to as…?
A. Chattel
B. Personal Property
C. Real Estate
D. Emblements
C. Real Estate
Personal Property
All property that is not considered to be real property. That which is movable (not attached to the land)
Chattels -
Good or evens species of property movable or immovable which are not real property. Personal property.
Real Property
That which is immovable. Land, things affixed to land, and appurtenances. Real estate plus the Bundle of Rights.
Real Estate
Land, and generally whatever is erected upon or affixed thereto. Improvements, such as buildings, structures, landscaping, fences, etc. are included.
Fixture
Appurtenances attached to the land or improvements, which usually cannot be removed without agreement as they become real property; examples - plumbing fixtures, store fixtures built into the property, etc.
Trade Fixtures
Articles of personal property annexed by a business tenant to real property which are necessary to the carrying on of a trade and are removable by the tenant.
Emblements
The crops and other annual planting considered to be personal property of the cultivator.
Riparian Rights
the right of a landowner whose land borders on a stream or watercourse to use and enjoy the water which is adjacent to or flows over the owner’s land provided such use does not injure or riparian owners.
Littoral Rights
The right of a property owner whose land borders on aa body of water, such as a lake, ocean or sea, to reasonable use and enjoyment of the shore and water the property borders on.
Mineral Rights
A landowner’s right to receive a portion of the profits of any minerals that are extracted from the land.
