The Nature of Real Property

Question 1

What are the bundle of rights for real property?

Answer 1

Possession
Use
Enjoyment
Disposition
Exclusion

Question 2

Land

Answer 2

the earth’s surface extending downward to the center of the earth and upward infinitely into space. Includes things permanently attached by nature such as trees and water.

Question 3

riparian rights

Answer 3

the rights of a landowner whose land borders on a stream or watercourse to use and enjoy the water to or own the owners land such that it does not injure other adjacent land owners.

Question 4

littoral rights

Answer 4

rights of a landowner whose land borers a pond, lake or ocean shore

Question 5

Define a fixture?

Answer 5

an article of personal property that has been so affixed to real estate that it becomes real property

Question 6

Define an appurtenance?

Answer 6

items that belong to a property. EX: a garage is appurtenant to the house. Appurtenant items run with the land when the property is transferred.

Question 7

Define an emblement?

Answer 7

growing crops produced by the labor of the cultivator

Question 8

What war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 8

Mexican American War in which Mexico ceded land to the U.S.

Question 9

What sector owns the highest percentage of California (federal, local, state, private)?

Answer 9

Private ~51%

Question 10

Which statistic shows the greatest disparity between the state and the nation (home values, household income, population, growth)?

Answer 10

Home values

Question 11

What are the five tests for a fixture and what is the acronym? Which is the most important consideration?

Answer 11

MARIA
1. Method by which the thing is affixed.
2. Adaptability of the thing for the land’s ordinary use.
3. Relationship of the parties.
4. Intent in placing the item on land (most important consideration).
5. Agreement of the parties

Question 12

What are the five major rights of ownership and what’s its acronym?

Answer 12

PUEDE
1. Right of Possession
2. Right to control the property’s Use
3. Right of Enjoyment of the Property
4. Right do Dispose of the property
5. Right to Exclude others from the property.

Question 13

Identify the the methods of legal description of land?

Answer 13

1. Metes and bounds
2. Rectangular survey system
3. Lot and block

Question 14

Define township, and the area it consists of.

Answer 14

A division of a territory within a rectangular survey system that is six miles square and contains 36 sections, each of which is one square mile.

Question 15

How many acres are in one standard section of a township?

Answer 15

640 acres (remember a section is 1 square mile).