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Washington Real Estate Fundamentals
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Real Estate & Planning
Professional
04/26/2008

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Term
Real Property
Definition
Land, attachments, and appurtenances.
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Personal Property
Definition
Anything that is not real property its main characteristic is movability.
Term
Appurtenance
Definition
A right incidental to the land that is transferred with it.
Term
Emblements
Definition
Crops, such as wheat, produced annually through the labor of the cultivator.
Term
Trade Fixtures
Definition
Personal property attached to real property by a tenant for use in a trade or business. Trade fixtures are removable by the tenant.
Term
Riparian Rights
Definition
Water rights of a landowner whose land borders on a stream or other surface water. Riparian rights allow only reasonalbe use of the water.
Term
Littoral land
Definition
Land bordered by a stationary body of water, such as a lake or pond.
Term
Appropriative rights
Definition
Water rights established by obtaining a government permit and not based on ownership of land beside a body of water.
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Lateral support
Definition
The support that a piece of land receives from the surrounding land.
Term
Subjacent support
Definition
The support that a piece of land receives from the underlying land.
Term
Metes and bounds
Definition
A system of land description in which the boundaries of a parcel of land are described by reference to monuments, courses, and distances.
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Monument
Definition
A visible marker (natrual or artificial) used in a survey or a metes and bounds description to establish the boundaries of a piece of property.
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Point of beginning
Definition
The starting point in a metes and bounds description; a monument or a point described by reference to a monument.
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Course
Definition
In a metes and bounds description, the length of a boundary, measured in pass bearing.
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Distance
Definition
In a metes and bounds description, the length of a boundary, measured in any convenient unit of length.
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