Vocab Flashcards
Exclusive longer term lease given to a person who lives in a cooperative and own stock in the cooperative
Proprietary lease
 A property developed for co-ownership, where each co-owner has a separate interest in an individual unit, combined with an undivided interest in common areas of the property
Condominium
Professional liability insurance that protects real estate licenses from mistakes or negligence
Errors and omissions insurance
When a landlords act or failure to act interferes with the tenants, quiet enjoyment of the property, or makes the property unfit for its intended, use, such as an extent that the tenant is forced to move out
Constructive eviction
Lease where the landlord pays all property, taxes, insurance, etc.
Gross lease
Lease where the tenant pays a percentage of gross sales, in addition to rent
Percentage lease
A building owned by a cooperation where the residence are shareholders in the corporation. Each shareholder receives a proprietary lease on an individually unit and the right to use common areas.
Cooperative
What tenants are actually paying in rent
Contract rent
In ownership interest that gives the owner a right to possession of the property only for specific limited period each year.
Timeshare
The rent, the property hood currently command on the open market
Economic rent
When a tenant transfers, only part of his or her right of possession, or other interest in least property to another person for part of the remaining lease term, as opposed to an assignment, where the tenant gives up possession for the entire remainder of the least term
Sublease
Lease where tenants pay all taxes, insurance, etc. plus utilities, and rent
Net lease
A gradual addition to dry land by the forces of nature, as when the tide deposits, water borne sediment on Shoreline property.
Accretion
- A government valuation of property for tax purposes. 2. A special assessment.
Assessment
- Taking private property for public use, through the government’s power of eminent domain. Also called appropriation. 2. A declaration that a structure is unfit for occupancy, and must be closed or demolished.
Condemnation
A fee estate in real property that may be defeated or undone if certain events occur or conditions aren’t met. Also: Fee simple, defeasible .
Defeasible fee
An easement granted to another in a deed or other document.
Easement by express Grant
A special kind of easement by implication that occurs when the dominant tenement would be completely useless without an easement, even if it is not a long standing, apparent use.
Easement by necessity
A non-possessory interest in property: a lien, easement, or restrictive covenant, burdening the property owners title.
Encumbrance
A leasehold estate set to last for a definite period, (one week, three years) after which it terminates automatically. Also called a term tenancy.
Estate for years
A future interest that becomes possessory when a temporary estate (such as a life estate, terminates), and that is held by the grantor, (or his, or her successors in interest). also called: reversion.
Estate in Reversion
The greatest estate one can have in a day real property: freely, transferable, and inheritable, and a definite duration, with no conditions on the title. Often called fee the simple or fee title. Also fee simple absolute.
Fee simple
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 has legally become part of the real property
Fixture
A form of co-ownership in which the co-owners have equal undivided interests, and the right of survivorship. Joint tenancy must have the four unities present. see unities, four.
Joint tenancy
If freehold estate that lasts only as long as a specified person lives. That person is referred to as the measuring life.
Life estate
A specific lien claimed by someone who performed work on the property (construction, repairs, or improvements) and has not been paid. This term is often used in a general sense, referring to materialmen’s liens as well as actual mechanics’ liens.
Mechanics’ lien
A life estate “mark for the life of another”, where the measuring life is someone other than the life tenant. Also called: life estate Pur Autre Vie
Pur Autre Vie
A future interest that becomes possessory when a temporary estate (such as a life-estate) terminates, and that is held by the grantor (or his, or her successors in interest).
Reversion
A form of co-ownership of property by husband and wife, in which each spouse has an undivided, 1/2 interest, and the right of survivorship, with neither spouse able to convey or encumber his or her interest without the others spouse’s consent.
Tenancy by the Entireties
A Latin phrase meeting “according to value” ; used to refer to taxes assessed on the value of property.
Ad Valorem
A right that goes along with ownership of real property: usually transferred with the property, but may be sold separately.
Appurtenance
A provision in a contract, deed, law, regulation, guideline, etc, that makes the parties’ rights and obligations dependent on the occurrence, ( or non-occurrence) of a particular event. Also called a contingency clause.
Condition
A person who has easement rights on another’s property: either the owner of a dominant tenement or someone who has an easement in gross.
Dominant Tenant
An easement created in a deed when a land owner is dividing the property, transferring the servient tenement, but retaining the dominant tenement.
Easement by express reservation
An easement acquired by prescription. Also called a prescriptive easement.
Easement by prescription
A physical object intruding onto neighboring property, often due to a mistake regarding the boundary.
Encroachment
A freehold estate that lasts only as long as I specified person lives. That person is referred to as the measuring life also called: life estate.
Estate for life
A future interest that becomes possessory when a life estate terminates, and that’s held by someone other than grantor of the life estate: (reversion is a future interest held by the granter). Also called: remainder.
Estate in remainder
An easement created in a deed, when a landowner is dividing the property, transferring the servient tenement but retaining the dominant tenement. Also: easement by express reservation.
Express reservation
A fee estate in real property that may be defeated or undone if certain events occur or conditions aren’t met.
Fee simple, defeasible
A lien against all property of a debtor, instead of a particular piece of property.
General lien
- A courts binding determination of the rights and duties of the parties in a lawsuit.
- A court order requiring one party to pay the other damages.
Judgment
A recorded notice, stating that there is a lawsuit pending that may affect title to the defendants real estate.
Lid Pendens
Ownership by a single individual as opposed to co-ownership.
Ownership in Severalty
When a body of water gradually receives, exposing land, that was previously underwater. Also called dereliction.
Reliction
The water rights of a landowner who’s property is adjacent two or crossed by a river. (Or any body of water)
Riparian Rights
A lean that attaches only to a particular piece of property. (As opposed to a general lien, which attaches to all of the debtors property)
Specific lien
Equipment a tenant installs for use in his or her trade or business, and can be removed by tenant before the lease expires.
Trade fixtures
The right to undisturbed use and control of the airspace over a parcel of land, within reasonable limits, for air travel: may be transferred separately from the land.
Air rights
Personal property that is closely associated with real property, such as a lease.
Chattel Real
A restriction on a real property use, imposed by a former owner: promised to do or not to do an act relating to real property: usually owner’s promise to not use property in a particular way. May or may not run with land. Also called; restrictive covenant.
Deed restriction
A right to use some part of another person’s real property for a particular purpose. An easement is irrevocable and creates an interest in the property.
Easement
An easement created by operation of law, (not expressed grant, or reservation) when land is divided, if there is a long-standing, apparent use that is reasonably necessary for enjoyment of the dominant tenant. Also called and implied easement.
Easement by implication
An easement that benefits, a person, instead of a piece of land: there is a dominant tenant, but no dominant tenement.
Easement in gross