Chapter 2 - Property Ownership

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Real Property

Land and all things attached to it, considered fixed, immovable, and indestructible.

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Personal Property

Anything ownable that is not real property, including chattel, emblements, and fixtures.

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Improvements

Man-made additions to land like buildings, fences, and landscaping.

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Easements

Rights to cross over another's property, including dominant and servient tenements.

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Fee Simple Absolute

Highest form of ownership, inheritable and without restrictions.

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Life Estates

Based on someone's life, can be conventional or legal, with future interests like reversion or remainder.

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Non-Freehold Estates

Created by lease agreements, tenants receive a bundle of legal rights.

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Tenancy Types

Include estate for years, periodic tenancy, tenancy at will, and tenancy by sufferance.

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Encumbrances

Limitations on property like liens, easements, and licenses.

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Legal Property Descriptions

Metes and bounds system, lot and block system, and government rectangular system.

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