Ch. 2 Exam Flashcards
Real Property is defined as:
Land and attachments.
Real Property is the land and everything attached to it. An attachment to the land is also known as an appurtenance.
An appurtenance:
May be sold separately from the land, is an interest that transfers with a piece of land, and may be air, water, mineral, gas, and support rights.
In Nevada, the body of law that regulates the use of water is known as the:
System of prior appropriation.
There are two categories of attachments. They are:
Natural and man-made.
Attachments may be natural, as with trees and plants that are attached to the land by their root systems, or they may be man-made, such as buildings.
Anything that has been permanently attached to the land and becomes part of the real estate is known as:
A fixture.
Fixtures have been either permanently attached to the Real Property or required for the operation of something attached to the property such as a garage door opener.
A special right given to tenant farmers for planted crops is known as:
The doctrine of emblements.
The doctrine of emblements allows the tenant farmer to reenter the land to harvest the crops and read their profits.
Which of the following includes the four tests a court will apply when determining if an item is a fixture?
The method of attachment, the adaptation of the item to the real property, the intention of the annexor, and the relationship between the parties.
Ownership of oil and gas is governed by:
The rule of capture.
The rule of capture allows ownership of fugitive substances, such as oil and gas, to include all that is produced from wells constructed on the owners property. Fugitive substances are not stationary and will flow from one parcel of land to another.
The north boundary of John’s property has suffered a collapse caused by his neighbor digging a well. The neighbor has violated John’s right to:
Lateral support.
Lateral support is support from adjacent land. John has the legal right to the natural support provided by bordering lands.
In order to convey Real Property there must always be an accurate:
Property description.
All of the following are types of property description, except:
Street and number.
While a street address may be used in the purchase agreement, it is not an adequate legal description.
A standard township would be:
36 square miles
A metes and bounds description always:
Begins and ends at the same identifiable point.
The metes and bounds description always has a point of beginning (POB) where the description and measurement starts and finishes.
Which of the following legal descriptions uses a principal meridian?
Rectangular government survey system.
The rectangular government survey system also known as the government survey system, and rectangular survey system describes land by reference to a series of grids. These grids are composed of two sets of lines, and original north/south line, known as a principal meridian, and the original east/west line known as a baseline.
A plat map is used in which type of legal description?
Lot and block.
The lot and block system is the easiest type of system and is used when subdividing new parcels. The properties within the subdivision are given lot and block numbers on the plat map.
