Chapter 2 Quiz Characteristics of Real Property Flashcards

Chapter 2 Quiz Characteristics of Real Property Flashcards What describes items of a tenant's personal property that the tenant has temporarily affixed to a landlord's real property in order to conduct business?DatumsAccessoriesPersonal devicesTrade fixtures D What did the federal government develop to simplify and standardize property descriptions as a replacement for the cumbersome and often inaccurate metes and bounds method?The lot and block methodThe rectangular survey systemThe recorded plat methodThe public survey system B What is the conversion of real property to personal property by detaching it from the real estate called?AssignmentSeveranceFastenAllocate B What refers to support provided by the adjacent property, such as a landowner having a right to demand that a neighboring property owner does nothing to cause the land to collapse?Material supportLateral supportCentral supportLittoral support B Items of personal property are also calledappurtenances.fodder.chattels.interests.C What term means the right to mortgage a property as collateral for debt?The right to excludeThe right to encumberThe right to financeThe right to rescind B What type of surveys use portable receiving antennas to gather data transmitted from satellites which are used to calculate the position of the object being located on the surface of the earth?TA/AC surveysALTA surveysGPS surveysALTA/SM surveys C What type of survey includes a topographic survey of a parcel of land which will be divided into two or more smaller tracts, lots or estate divisions?A location surveyA construction surveyA site surveyA subdivision survey D What describes real estate and the bundle of rights associated with owning the real estate?Personal estateCommunity propertyPersonal propertyReal property D What type of property is ownership of anything that is not real estate and the rights associated with owning the item?An emblementReal propertyA datumPersonal property D What term describes a personal property item that has been converted to real property by attachment to real

estate?A featureA componentA fixtureA fitment C

Property rights that are said "to run with the land" and includes things such as air rights, surface rights and subsurface rights are calledfixtures.emblements.appurtenances.chattels.C The term "metes" refers to distance and direction and the term "bounds" refers tocourse.variable landmarks.fixed reference points.latitude.C What type of survey locates and verifies all property corners and boundaries, shows the location of all improvements in relation to the property lines, includes an area of the overall property and shows any existing encroachments?A location surveyA construction surveyA boundary surveyA site planning survey C Tangible property is physical, visible, andabstract.conceptual.material.imperceptible.C The three unique characteristics of land are immobility, indestructibility, andproduction.heterogeneity.function.cultivation.B The metes and bounds description always identifies an enclosed area by starting at an origination point calledpoint of beginning.base point.base point.conception.A What type of rights concern properties abutting bodies of water that are not moving, such as lakes and seas?Inlet rightsLittoral rightsReal property rightsRiparian rights B What describes a portion of land delineated by boundaries?A sectionA parcelA tierA plot B The north-south area between consecutive meridians is called alot.tier.section.range.D Air, water, land and everything affixed to the land is a definition ofintangible property.chattel.real estate.community property.C What type of survey is a boundary survey with the additional location of all the interior improvements?A topographic surveyA location surveyA site planning surveyA construction survey B What system uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land?Lot and block methodRectangular survey systemRecorded plat methodMetes and bounds D What is the act of converting personal property to real property by attaching it to the real estate called?AffixingSeveringAppendingDetaching A What type of rights apply to the real estate contained within the surface boundaries of the parcel?Littoral rightsWater

rightsEncumbrance rightsSurface rights D