More Vocabulary

Question 1

Chattel

Answer 1

Commonly used term for personal property in real estate.
Personal property is moveable and chattel is personal property, “cattle can be chattel”

Question 2

Fructus Naturales

Answer 2

Trees, long term decorative plantings, uncultivated plants. They are considered REAL property because of their permanence.

Question 3

Fructus Industriales /emblements

Answer 3

Annually cultivated crops are called Fructus Industriales or emblements are considered personal property even prior to harvesting

Question 4

Severance

Answer 4

The name of the process of turning real property into personal property.

Question 5

Annexation

Answer 5

Process of converting personal property to real property.. aka installing a chandelier

Question 6

Accession

Answer 6

Is the right to all that one’s own property produces, including which is added. Ex: sprouting strawberry plants in your backyard. You didn’t plant them but you still have the right to pick and eat them.

Question 7

Accretion

Answer 7

Is the process that results in the gradual increase in land area through deposits of soil by natural forces.

Question 8

Reliction and Avulsion

Answer 8

Reliction is gradual increase in land area when water gradually withdraws.

Avulsion is the sudden loss of land by flood or when a stream or River changes course. Avulsion is caused by water.