Chapter 5: What Is Real Estate? Key Terms Review Part 1

Question 1

Accretion

Answer 1

An increase of land caused by the gradual depositing of solid material.

Question 2

Air rights

Answer 2

The rights to use the air above the land which may be sold or leased independently of the land itself.

Question 3

Alluvion

Answer 3

The solid material deposited by a body of water

Question 4

Avulsion

Answer 4

The sudden change of the course of a stream.

Question 5

Bundle of rights

Answer 5

Possession, control, enjoyment, and so on.

Question 6

Chattels

Answer 6

Tangible personal property

Question 7

Corporeal

Answer 7

Tangible

Question 8

Devise

Answer 8

To leave real estate to someone by Will.

Question 9

Emblements

Answer 9

Annual crops

Question 10

Erosion

Answer 10

The opposite of accretion. Taking away part of the land due to natural occurrences.

Question 11

Fixture

Answer 11

An article that was once personal property but attached as to make it real estate.

Question 12

Hereditament

Answer 12

Anything that can be inherited.

any item of property, either a corporeal hereditament (such as land or a building) or an incorporeal hereditament (such as a rent or a right of way).

Question 13

Improvement

Answer 13

Manufactured attachments to land.