Chapter 2: Characteristics of Real Property Flashcards
Real property is defined as:
land and attachments
An appurtenance:
All of the above.
- may be sold separately from the land.
-is an interest that transfers with a piece of land.
-may be air, water, mineral, gas, and support rights.
In Nevada, the body of law that regulates the use of water is known as the:
system of prior appropriation.
There are two categories of attachments.They are:
natural and man made
A special right given to tenant farmers for planted crops is known as:
the doctrine of emblements.
Ownership of oil and gas is governed by:
the rule of capture.
The north boundary of John’s property has suffered a collapse caused by his neighbor digging a well. The neighbor has violated John’s right to:
lateral support
In order to convey real property there must always be an accurate:
property description
All of the following are types of property description, EXCEPT:
street and number
A standard township would be:
36 square miles
A meter and bound’s description always:
begins and ends at the same identifiable point.
Which of the following legal descriptions uses a principal meridian?
Rectangular government survey system
A plat map is used in which type of legal description?
Lot and block
and what corner of a township would you find section one?
Northeast
How many acres does the following legal description contain?
E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 23
20 Acres
A section of land, as used in the government rectangular survey system, may be described as:
Both B and C
-1,760 yards by 1,760 yards
-640 yards
A township contains 36 consecutively number sections section numbering begins in the north east corner, which would be the section directly south of section 16?
21
The key difference between real property (land) and personal property (a truck) is that land cannot be moved which term is used to indicate that something cannot be moved?
Immobile
Cisco rents land from Audrey. Cisco planted a giant pumpkin vine in hopes of winning the big $10,000 pumpkin prize at the County Fair in the fall. After enough care, Cisco‘s pumpkin was clearly looking like it would be a prize winner. However, before harvest, Audrey tells Cisco that the pumpkin is being grown on her land and rooted in the soil she owns, so the pumpkin is at her property, and she will be taking Kit to the fair to play the prize money.
Cisco’s lawyer tells him he can utilize the doctrine of emblements and explains that the doctrine refers to:
the right of a tenant farmer to harvest a cultivated annual crop.
A land developer is planning on subdividing, a single large plot of land into a handful of lots and blocks. This requires that the developer provided a plat not to show the land was plotted. What must the developer include on the plat map?
Unique names of each subdivision and numbers for each lot in the subdivision.
Dejohn owns a farm plot and asks you if he can do the following to the property.
- Install a wind turbine on his land that extends 50 feet into the air above the ground level of his property.
- Put up a “No Trespassing” sign to deter the neighbor kids from walking across his lawn.
Which is the correct response to Dejohn’s question?
He can install the wind turbine and put up the sign to keep the neighbor kids off his lawn.
Maria’s wants to build a shed, patio, and fence on an empty lot of his land he’s leasing. With permission from the landlord, Matias just purchased a lumber in bricks for the project and stacked them neatly in the middle of the land. Matias finished the shed and patio at the end of last summer. The fence, however, never got built and the lumber is stacked neatly near the shed along with some leftover bricks from the patio construction. Yesterday, the landlord and Matias got into a disagreement and decided to terminate the lease agreement.
Which of the following can Matias take when vacating the leased property?
The lumbar and bricks stacked near the shed that were not used in the construction.
Lucy Littoral has been told that her name is a special legal real estate word. When she buys a house, she has decided that she wants it to have something to do with “Littoral,” but she doesn’t know what that term means. Which house would you advise her to purchase?
A beach house adjacent to Lake Washington.
Wamblee sells to Michael but reserves the right to oil and gas. Wamblee begins drilling for the oil, discovers a silver vein, and begins to extract silver. Which statement is MOST true.
Since Wamblee owns only the right to the oil and gas, he is not entitled to the silver because it belongs to Michael.
Suzuki bequeathed all of her personal property to her son, and all of her real property to her daughter. Suzuki’s son and daughter argue over who owns certain items from their mother’s estate. Which of these items belong to which heir?
- A fence upon which Suzuki had painted a mural of her children.
- A sculpture of St. Francis Suzuki would rotate around the front and back yards each year.
The daughter owns the fence because it is real property, and the son owns the sculpture because it is personal property.
