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.