Unit 1

Question 1

Accession

Question 2

Accretion

Question 3

Air rights

Question 4

Annexation

Answer 4

process of converting personal property into real property

Question 5

Appurtenance

Answer 5

A right, privilege, or improvement belonging to, and passing with the land; “runs with the land”

Question 6

Area preference

Question 7

Avulsion

Question 8

Bundle of legal rights

Answer 8

the concept of land ownership that includes ownership of all legal rights to the land

Question 9

Chattel

Answer 9

moveable, tangible items such as chairs, tables, clothing, money, bonds, and bank accounts

Question 10

Emblements

Answer 10

growing crops, such as corn, that are produced annually through labor and industry

Question 11

Erosion

Question 12

Fixture

Answer 12

an item of personal property that has been converted to real property by being permanently affixed to the realty

Question 13

Improvement

Answer 13

any artificial thing attached on or below ground, such as a building, fence, water line, or sewer pipe, as well as trees, shrubs, and other growing things that are made part of the landscaping

Question 14

Land

Answer 14

The earth’s surface extending downward to the center of the earth and upward to infinity

Question 15

Littoral rights

Question 16

Manufactured housing

Answer 16

dwellings that are build off-site and trucked to a building lot where they are installed and assembled

Question 17

Nonhomogeneity

Answer 17

a lack of uniformity; dissimilarity

Question 18

Personal property

Answer 18

items called chattels, that do not fit into the definition of real property; moveable objects

Question 19

Prior appropriation

Question 20

Real estate

Answer 20

Land; a portion of the earth’s surface extending downward to the center of the earth and upward infinitely into space, including all things permanently attached to it, whether naturally or artificially

Question 21

Real property

Answer 21

the interests, benefits, and rights inherent in real estate ownership

Question 22

Reliction

Question 23

Riparian rights

Question 24

Severance

Answer 24

changing an item of real estate to personal property by detaching it from the land

Question 25

Situs

Question 26

Subsurface rights

Question 27

Surface rights

Question 28

Trade fixture

Answer 28

an article installed by a tenant under the terms of a lease that is removable by the tenant before the lease expires

Question 29

Water rights