Unit-1A Property Government Rights (KeyTerms)

Question 1

Accretion

Answer 1

The increase of land due to natural causes.

Question 2

Affidavit of Affixture

Answer 2

A document used to make mobile manufactured home real property.

Question 3

Appurtenance

Answer 3

The rights and improvements that are attached to the land and transferred with the land unless reserved or excepted on the deed. Appurtenances may be corporal or in corporal .

Question 4

Bill of Sale

Answer 4

An instrument of writing that transfers ownership of tangible personal property, e.g. furniture.

Question 5

Bundle of rights

Answer 5

Legal rights conferred to owners of real property, including the rights of disposition, exclusion, enjoyment possession control.

Question 6

Condemnation

Answer 6

The act or process of taking private property for public use through the government power of eminent domain

Question 7

Conversion

Answer 7

The process of changing real property to personal property or personal property to real property

Question 8

Corporeal

Answer 8

Improvement such as buildings, fences trees, sidewalks, and perennial plants( fructus naturales -fruit of nature)

Question 9

Dedication

Answer 9

The donation of real estate to a government for a public purpose

Question 10

Deed

Answer 10

A written instrument transferring the grantor’s ownership of or interest in real property

Question 11

Emblements

Answer 11

Farm crops that require annual cultivation which may be removed by a tenant farmer if the owner sells land considered to be personal property and so emblements are transferred through a bill of sale. Also called Fructus industriales

Question 12

Eminent domain

Answer 12

The power or right of governmental bodies to take private real estate for public use upon payment of Justin equitable compensation to the owner. The legal process of taking the property is called condemnation or appropriation.

Question 13

Erosion (Avulsion)

Answer 13

The gradual loss of soil due to natural causes such as the movement of wind or water

Question 14

Escheat

Answer 14

The reversion of property to the state after a person dies without leaving a valid will or any heirs.

Question 15

Fixture

Answer 15

A man-made attachment, an item of personal property that has been attached to or closely associated with real property in such a way that it is now legally part of the real property.

Question 16

Fixture

Answer 16

A man-made attachment, an item of personal property that has been attached to or closely associated with real property in such a way that it is now legally part of the real property.

Question 17

Grantee

Answer 17

A person receiving a grant of real property from the grantor.

Question 18

Hereditament

Answer 18

The right to transfer ownership to heirs.

Question 19

Heterogeneity

Answer 19

Meaning, no to parcels of land are the same or non-homogeneous, uniqueness

Question 20

Personal property (chattel, personally)

Answer 20

Movable property that is not attached to the land. tangible personalty are objects such as potted plants, furniture, automobiles, and documents

Question 21

Police power

Answer 21

The right to enact and enforce laws for the health, safety and welfare of the public examples include zoning, laws, health codes, and building codes

Question 22

Real property (real estate)

Answer 22

The land, everything attached to it and the rights that accompany it

Question 23

Real property (real estate)

Answer 23

The land, everything attached to it and the rights that accompany it

Question 24

Riparian Rights

Answer 24

Water rights of land owners, whose land abuts a natural body of water, such as a stream or river no permit is required to use the water, not recognized in Arizona

Question 25

Taxation

Answer 25

The government right to raise money to pay for the cost of services and functions of the government

Question 26

Tenement

Answer 26

Everything of a permanent nature associated with land in ordinary, transferred with the land tents are both tangible (e.g. buildings )and intangible, (e.g. air rights)

Question 27

Tangible

Answer 27

Real objects of property that can be touched.