Unit 1 - Real Property Fundamentals

Question 1

acquiring of title to land by its addition to real estate already owned through natural or human processes

Answer 1

Accession

Question 2

adding to land by natural forces of nature

Answer 2

Accretion

Question 3

the solid material deposit from accretion

Answer 3

Alluvion

Question 4

attaching personal property to land

Answer 4

Annexation

Question 5

Physically attached property to land

Answer 5

Actual Annexation

Question 6

Personal Property that is considered a fixture but NOT attached physically to the land

Answer 6

Constructive Annexation

Question 7

A PERSON who owns personal property and brings it onto real property making it part of the real property.

Answer 7

Annexer

Question 8

Water rights granted with permit. It is not required to own property beside the body of water.

Answer 8

Appropriative rights

Question 9

A right that goes along with ownership of real property. Physical and non Physical…Legally.

Answer 9

Appurtenance

Question 10

Land removed SUDDENLY from property and added

onto another’s property…such as flash flood.

Answer 10

Avulsion

Question 11

a document to transfer ownership of personal property from one person to another.

Answer 11

Bill of Sale

Question 12

Possession, Quiet Enjoyment, Disposition, Right of Exclusion, and Right of Control

Answer 12

Bundle of Rights

Question 13

a piece of personal property

Answer 13

Chattel

Question 14

a crop planted and cultivated through someone’s labor and industry…Fructus Industriales

Answer 14

Emblement

Question 15

Physical object on someone else’s property, often due to a mistake…trees over fence

Answer 15

Encroachment

Question 16

a gradual loss of soil due to natural causes…beach front houses

Answer 16

Erosion

Question 17

Man-Made Attachment now part of the real property

Answer 17

Fixture

Question 18

Fruits of Industry or Emblements

Answer 18

Fructus Indistriales

Question 19

Naturally occurring plants on property also called natural attachments

Answer 19

Fructus Naturales

Question 20

A fixture attached to real property by a landlord for the use of the tenant.

Answer 20

Leasehold Improvement

Question 21

Additions to real property that can be natural (trees) but usually are man-made, large fixtures such as buildings

Answer 21

Improvements

Question 22

surface, subsurface and air rights

Answer 22

Land

Question 23

the actual physical land and attachments

Answer 23

Real Estate

Question 24

the physical land plus rights

Answer 24

Real Property (Realty)

Question 25

water rights with Lakes and non-flowing bodies of water

Answer 25

Littoral Rights

Question 26

Rights to minerals underneath surface of property

Answer 26

Mineral Rights

Question 27

a SPECIFIC lot or piece of real estate, particularly a specified part of a larger tract.

Answer 27

Parcel

Question 28

Personal Items not attached, moveable and not fixed, usually called Chattel or Personalty

Answer 28

Personal Property

Question 29

When a body of water gradually recedes exposing land that was previously underwater

Answer 29

Reliction

Question 30

Water rights landowners with a river or flowing body of water

Answer 30

Riparian Rights

Question 31

a legal principle that grants a landowner the right to all oil and gas produced by wells on his or her land. Even if it migrated there from neighboring land.

Answer 31

Rule of Capture

Question 32

the owner has rights to the land below the surface to the center of the earth, even though this is not documented

Answer 32

Subsurface Rights

Question 33

Items of PERSONAL property that are fixed but removed before lease is expired.

Answer 33

Trade Fixtures