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Real Estate Review

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Metes and Bounds   Most used legal description that refers to a point of beginning (POB) and then uses distances and compass direcitons  
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Real Property aka Realty   Land along with its improvements, things attached to it, and the benefits, rights and interests included in its ownership.  
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Chattel   Personal Property/Personalty-Anything that is unattached and moveable, such as furniture.  
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Fixtures   Once-moveable items that have been attached to real property. e.g. sink or ceiling fan  
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Trade Fixture   Fixtures used by business tenants such a display cases or supermarket freezers. Consideered the tenant's removable personal property.  
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Annexation   Term for how, by attachment something that was formerly personal property becomes real property.  
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Accession   Additions to real property from natural causes, such as a riverfront that benefits from a shift in the river's path.  
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Severance   The process of separating a fixture from real property. Also applies to removing "connected" elements such as crops and minerals from the land.  
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Four legal tests for a fixture   1 Intention 2 Method of Attachment 3 adaptation 4 Relationship/Understanding between Parties  
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Appurtenance   "Runs with the land" or belonging to something else. Rights do not end when the new owner takes titile.  
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Emblements   Crops that a tenant generally owns as personal property and may return to harvest even after a lease expires.  
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Fructus Industraials "Fruits of Industry"   Fruits of growning crops considered personal property.  
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Fructus Naturales "Fruits of Nature"   Tree's & Bushes considered to be real property.  
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"LAND" Includes   Earth's surface, subsurface to the center of the earth, the space overhead and rights to each.  
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Three physical Characteristics of Land   Immobility, permanence (indestructibility), uniqueness.  
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Improvements   Additionss to the property that increase its value or enhance its appearance.  
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Monument   Any number of landmarks that provides a stable point of reference for surveys. They can be natural such as trees, revers or artificial such as stakes, markers, or pins  
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Lot/Block/Tract   System of Property description generally used for Subdivisions.  
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Recorded Plat System   Identifies properties according to a plat map or sometimes even an assessor's map.  
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Assessor's Map (Subdivision)   Shows the specific dimensions of each lot, the access roads, and easments. Almost always have a disclaimer that they are "For Tax Purposes Only."  
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Propety Survey   Determine the accurate location and dimensions of property boundary lines.  
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Acre Size   For test purposes 43,560 Square Feet  
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Assessor's Acre   40,000 Square Feet  
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