Chapter 2: Characteristics of Real Property

Question 1

Real property is defined as:

Answer 1

land and attachments

Question 2

An appurtenance:

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

In Nevada, the body of law that regulates the use of water is known as the:

Answer 3

system of prior appropriation.

Question 4

There are two categories of attachments.They are:

Answer 4

natural and man made

Question 5

A special right given to tenant farmers for planted crops is known as:

Answer 5

the doctrine of emblements.

Question 6

Ownership of oil and gas is governed by:

Answer 6

the rule of capture.

Question 7

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:

Answer 7

lateral support

Question 8

In order to convey real property there must always be an accurate:

Answer 8

property description

Question 9

All of the following are types of property description, EXCEPT:

Answer 9

street and number

Question 10

A standard township would be:

Answer 10

36 square miles

Question 11

A meter and bound’s description always:

Answer 11

begins and ends at the same identifiable point.

Question 12

Which of the following legal descriptions uses a principal meridian?

Answer 12

Rectangular government survey system

Question 13

A plat map is used in which type of legal description?

Answer 13

Lot and block

Question 14

and what corner of a township would you find section one?

Answer 14

Northeast

Question 15

How many acres does the following legal description contain?
E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 23

Answer 15

20 Acres

Question 16

A section of land, as used in the government rectangular survey system, may be described as:

Answer 16

Both B and C
-1,760 yards by 1,760 yards
-640 yards

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

21

Question 18

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?

Answer 18

Immobile

Question 19

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:

Answer 19

the right of a tenant farmer to harvest a cultivated annual crop.

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

Unique names of each subdivision and numbers for each lot in the subdivision.

Question 21

Dejohn owns a farm plot and asks you if he can do the following to the property.

1. Install a wind turbine on his land that extends 50 feet into the air above the ground level of his property.
2. 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?

Answer 21

He can install the wind turbine and put up the sign to keep the neighbor kids off his lawn.

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

The lumbar and bricks stacked near the shed that were not used in the construction.

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

A beach house adjacent to Lake Washington.

Question 24

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.

Answer 24

Since Wamblee owns only the right to the oil and gas, he is not entitled to the silver because it belongs to Michael.

Question 25

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?

1. A fence upon which Suzuki had painted a mural of her children.
2. A sculpture of St. Francis Suzuki would rotate around the front and back yards each year.

Answer 25

The daughter owns the fence because it is real property, and the son owns the sculpture because it is personal property.