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KES Real property
Real property and the law
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Land | Earths surface to center of earth and sky above. |
| Improvments | Human made additions on or be.ow ground. Includes growing things |
| Realestate | Land plus all human made improvements that are attached |
| Real Property | Interest, benefits, rights automatic.y included with ownership |
| Bundle of legal rights | Possession, control, enjoyment, exclusion, disposition |
| Disposition | To sell, will, transfer, otherwise dispose, encumber |
| Title 2 meanings | Right to ownership, evidence of that ownership (deed) |
| Title refers to? | Ownership, not a printed document |
| Deed | Document by which owner transfers title. |
| Appurtenance | Something that transfers with title (parking space, easements, water rights |
| Real estate is equivalent to? | Real property |
| Rights limited to surface | Surface rights |
| Rights to natural resources | Subsurface rights |
| Riparian Rights | Rights granted along flowing water (ownership to center of river or body of water) |
| Littoral Rights | Grants use of water, but not ownership. Owns land adjacent to water up to average high water mark |
| Accretion | Increase in land due to soil deposits. |
| Erosion | Wearing away of land by natural forces |
| Avulsion | Sudden loss of land by act of nature. |
| Doctrine of prior appropration | Water use controlled by state. Permit granted based on prof of beneficial use. First in time |
| Important distinction between personal and real property | Personal property is moveable. |
| Chattels | Items of personal property, movable items, emblements like cultivated crops. |
| Emblements | Annually cultivated crops fructus industriales (fruits of industry) considered personal property. |
| Fructus naturales | Perennial shrubs, grass, trees |
| Severance | Act of seprating property from land |
| Annexation | Act of converting personal property in to real property |
| Conveyance of real property is by? | Deed |
| Conveyance of personal property is by? | Bill of sale |
| Fixture | Personal property that has been attached. |
| MARIA legal test of fixture | Method of annexation, Adaptability for ordinary use, Relationship of parties, intention, agreement. |
| Trade fixtures | Used for business can be removed prior to new occupancy. Considered personal property. |
| Accession | Trade fixtures not removed that become real property (constructive annexation) |
| Characteristics of real property 2 | Economic, physical |
| Economic chars of real property (land) 4 | Scarcity, improvements, permanence of investment, area preference. |
| Situs | Place |
| Physical characteristics of land | Immobility, indestructibility, uniqueness |
| Nonhomogeneity | Uniqueness |
| Prescriptive easements are considered | Extension of acquiring title to property through adverse possession. |
| Prescriptive easements may be aquired accross land | After 10 years of continuous use |
| Prescriptive easement use characteristics | Continuous open, notorious, hostile |
| Easement by prescription ... | Runs with the land |
| Easement may be removed by | 5 years non continuous use |
| By law all AZ property much have | Ingress, egress rights. No land locked land. Owner can sue to condemn adjacent land for easement with courts |
| The owner of land where easement will exist | Most often will be compensated |
| AMA (water law) | Active management area. Due to over draft of ground water supply. |
| In AMA a builder must | Prove development has an assured water supply for 100 years |
| In non-AMA areas buildes must | Adequate water supply |
| Water rights type I | Remain with land, but could be used for non irrigation purposes |
| Water rights type II | Grandfathered water rights that may be sold seprate from land. |
| AZ water classifications | Ground, surface |
| Use of water rights without permit is | Riparian (NOT AZ) |
| AZ water use regulated by | Dept of water resources |
| Exempt domestic well must | Not exceed 35 gal per min and water an area no greater than 2 acres |
| Water well use much appear on the | SPDS (completed by owner) |