Nonmonetary Encumbrances

Question 1

Appurtenant Easements

Answer 1

Attached to the land and if the property is sold, the easement is transferred to the new owner

Question 2

Conservation Easement

Answer 2

A voluntary, legal agreement that permanently limits uses of the land in order to protect its conversation values

Question 3

Dominant Tenement

Answer 3

The landowner who benefits from an easment

Question 4

Easement

Answer 4

Interest that entitles one party to some limited use of another party’s land

Question 5

Easement in Gross

Answer 5

Right to use the land of another

Question 6

Egress

Answer 6

An exit

Question 7

Encroachment

Answer 7

The intrusion upon another person’s property without a right to use it

Question 8

Encumbrance

Answer 8

A claim upon real property; any impediment to a clear title

Question 9

Ingress

Answer 9

An entrance

Question 10

Laches

Answer 10

A delay in asserting one’s rights

Question 11

License

Answer 11

The personal, non-assignable authorization to enter and perform certain acts on another’s land

Question 12

Nonmonetary Encumbrance

Answer 12

Affects the physical condition or use of the property; includes deed restrictions, easements, and encroachments

Question 13

Profit/Profit a Prendre

Answer 13

A type of easement; it is a right to remove soil, minerals, fruit, timber, or some product of the land with compensation to the surface owner of the land

Question 14

Servient Tenement

Answer 14

Land on which an easement runs

Question 15

View Easement

Answer 15

Easement that restricts the height of buildings and plants

Question 16

Easement by prescription

Answer 16

Created by open, notorious, uninterrupted, hostile, and adverse use of another’s land for a period set by statute

Question 17

Easement by necessity

Answer 17

When one parcel of land is sold, depriving the other parcel of access to a public road or utility