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RE LEGAL 05TERMS
RE Legal Unit 05Terms
Term | Definition |
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adjoining landowners | Persons owning lands that share common boundaries and therefore have mutual rights, duties, and liabilities |
agreed boundary line | Adjoining owners of property with an uncertain boundary set a new boundary line |
boundary line | Artificial or natural perimeter of a parcel of land, separating it from adjacent parcels of land |
continuing trespass | Permanent invasion on another’s rights |
division fence | Fence lying exactly on the boundary line separating two properties |
light, air, and view easement | Negative easement created by grant preventing servient landowner from building a structure or planting trees that would prevent sunlight or air from reaching the dominant estate |
line trees | Trees or hedges whose trunks grow on the boundary line |
nuisance | Activity remaining outside the property that substantially interferes with a person’s reasonable use and enjoyment of his or her property |
nuisance per se | Nuisance by statute or based on case law |
party wall | Partition erected on a property boundary providing common support to the structures on both sides of the boundary |
private nuisance | Nuisance affecting only a few people |
public nuisance | Nuisance annoying the whole community in general |
solar easement | Easement for the purpose of receiving sunlight across real property of another for any solar energy system |
spite fence | Fence exceeding 10 feet in height erected for the purpose of annoying a neighbor |
trespass | Intentional and unauthorized entry upon another’s real property |