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Georgia Real Estate
Chapter 1 & 2
Term | Definition |
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real estate | Land and improvements in a physical sense, as well as the rights to own or use them |
improvements | any form of land development, such as buildings, roads, fences, and pipelines |
appurtenance | an improvement, right, or privilege that |
Personal Property | Also know as chattel an interest in things of a temporary or movable nature |
Physical Characteristics | Indestructible Immovable Nonhomogenous |
Economic Characteristics | Situs Scarcity Improvability Fixity |
fixture | an object that has been attached to land physically so as to become real estate |
Ways to tell or tests to determine if an item is real or personal property | Modification Attachment Relationship of the parties Intentions of the annexing party Agreement |
The most effective way to test a fixture | Agreement |
Riparian Rights | the rights of a landowner whose land borders a river or stream to use or enjoy water |
Littoral Rights | right of landowners to use and enjoy a lake or sea touching their land |
Doctrine of prior appropriation | the first owner to divert water for personal use may continue to do so |
Doctrine of capture | the first to use the water (even underground water) has a prior right to use. |
legal description | a method of identifying a property geographically exclusive of any other property on the face of the earth |
Township | a 6 mile square made up of 36 square miles or “sections” |
section | 1 square mile (a township is made up of 36 sections) |
acre | 43,560 |
Emblements | Annual cultivated crops and personal property. |