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7.ESTATES AND INTERESTS
- REAL ESTATE A piece of land, including the
air above it and the ground below it, and
any buildings or structures on it. Everything
both natural and man made.
- REAL PROPERTY The interests,
benefits, and rights inherent in real
estate ownership; land and anything
else of a permanent nature that is
affixed to the land.
- CATEGORIES OF REAL PROPERTY
- RESIDENTIAL
- COMMERCIAL
- INDUSTRIAL (warehouse,storage)
- AGRICULTURAL
- SPECIAL PURPOSE (schools,tennis clubs,churches..)
- BUNDLE OF LEGAL RIGHTS :
- RIGHT OF POSSESSION Holding, controlling, or having
custody of property for one's use, either as an owner
or as a person with a legal right.
- RIGHT OF QUITE ENJOYMENT The right of an owner or any
other person legally entitled to possession to use a
property without interference.
- RIGHT OF DISPOSITION allows the owner to transfer all
or some of the rights to other people.
- RIGHT OF EXCLUSION allows the owner to stop others
from using the property or even from entering the
property.
- RIGHT OF CONTROL allows the owner to physically alter or
change the property.
- TRESPASSING is a physical invasion of
land by another person who has no
lawful right to enter it.
- ENCROACHMENT synonym for
trespass,but the term refers to
objects,such as buildings.
- NUISANCE interferes with the
quiet enjoyment of land from
outside causes such as loud
noises,obnoxious odors..
- APPURTENANCES A right,
privilege, or improvement
belonging to and passing with
the land.
- WATER RIGHTS Common Law
rights held by owners of land
adjacent to rivers, lakes, or
oceans, including restrictions on
those rights and land ownership.
- RIPARIAN like river,These rights
include access to and use of the
water.
- LITTORAL right to lake,ocean..
- LAND The earth's surface, extending
downward to the center of the earth
and upward infinitely into space,
including things permanently
attached by nature, such as trees
and water.
- AIR RIGHTS The earth's surface, extending
downward to the center of the earth and
upward infinitely into space, including things
permanently attached by nature, such as trees
and water.
- APPROPRIATIVE RIGHTS government permits allow the
holder to take water from particular body of water for a
specified use,such as crop irrigation.
- PERCOLATING water rights,involve the use of
underground water.
- MINERAL RIGHTS The privilege of gaining
income from the sale of oil, gas, and other
valuable resources found on land.
- RULE OF CAPTURE says whoever drills a well on his/her
land owns all the oil or gas the well produces even
though it may have migrated from under a neighbors
land.
- SUBJACENT SUPPORT The support
that the surface of the earth
receives from its underlying
strata.
- ATTACHMENTS the things attached to the land,whether
natural or man made.
- IMPROVEMENTS man made attachments like
buildings,roads,driveways,fences..
- FIXTURES are items of personal property that
have been permanently attached to the land or
its improvements. FIXTURES become as personal
property but can become real property.
- ANNEXATION when personal property becomes PHYSICALLY ATTACHED.
- SEVERANCE when fixtures detached from the land and so revert back to
personal property.Like chandelier..
- TRADE FIXTURES any equipment or personal property a
COMMERCIAL TENANT INSTALLS for BUSINESS PURPOSES.They
remain personal property.
- FRUCTUS NATURALES real property like apple tree
- FRUCTUS INDUSTRIALES (EMBLEMENTS) personal property.
- PERSONAL PROPERTY is also called
CHATTEL,chattel is any property that is
movable and not fixed to the land.
- ESTATE possessory interest in real property.
- FREEHOLD ESTATE is a possessory interest
of uncertain duration;it may end but no
one know when.
- FEE SIMPLE ESTATE is the fullest freehold estate interest
that exists in real property.Its also called FEE SIMPLE
ABSOLUTE.
- QUALIFIED FEE ESTATE means that a grantor puts a
condition or requirement in the deed that
terminates the estate automatically if the condition
or requirement is not met and reverts title back to
the grantor. (runs with the land)
- FEE ON CONDITION ESTATE means that a
grantor puts a condition or requirement in the
deed that gives the grantor the "right to
reentry" if the condition or requirement is not
met.
- LIFE ESTATE An interest in real
or personal property that is
limited in duration to the
lifetime of its owner or some
other designated person or
persons.
- LIFE TENANT the holder of lie estate.
- CONVENTIONAL LIFE ESTATE,the
measuring life and the life tenant
are the same person.
- PUR ATRE VIE For the life of another. Used to
refer to properties granted not in perpetuity but
only for the lifespan of a specific individual.
- INTEREST a person with a property right or a
claim against property is said to have an
interest in the property.
- REVERSIONARY adjective referring to property
which passes to another owner on the death of the
present one.
- REMINDER the grantor grants the life
estate to one person then to another
person,the remainderman upon the death
of the measuring life.
- LEASEHOLD ESTATE A tenant's
right to occupy real estate
during the term of a lease,
generally considered to be a
personal property interest.
- OWNERSHIP IN SEVERALTY simplest form of
ownership.Sole form of ownership,meaning the
only one person or legal entity holds the title to that
property.
- CO-OWNERSHIP is any form of ownership where two or more persons
share title to real property,with each person having an undivided interest
in the property.UNDIVIDED INTEREST gives each co-owner the right to
possesion of the whole property,not just part of it.
- TENANCY IN COMMON co-ownership with two
or more persons having an undivided interest
in the entire land,but no rights of survivorship.
ONLY UNITY OF POSSESSION.
- JOINT TENANCY when each co-owner has an equal undivided
interest in the land and right of survivorship.REQUIRES FOR
UNITS oF POSSESION,INTEREST,TIME ans TITLE.
- TENANCY BY THE ENTIRETY involves only owners who are
husband and wife with each having equal and undivided share
of property.WITH FIVE UNITIES.
- UNITIES
- UNITY OF POSSESSION
- UNITY OF INTEREST
- UNITY OF TIME
- UNITY OF TITLE
- SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP is a business owned
by a single individual(or husband and wife
for tax purposes) in severalty.
- PARTNERSHIP is an association of two
or more individuals as co-owners of a
business as specified in the
partnership agreement.
- GENERAL PARTNERSHIP is
an association of two or
more individuals as co
owners of business where
all partners share in the
financial liability both
individualy and as a
member of the
partnership.
- LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP is an
association of two or
more persons as co
owners of a business
with one or more
general partners and
one more limited
partners.