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22 Cards in this Set
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Acre
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A measure of land equaling 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, or a tract about 208.71 feet square.
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Admission Date
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September 9, 1850
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Airspace
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The reasonable space above a parcel; or in a condominium, cubic area of a space within the walls.
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Base Lines
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Imaginary east-west lines that intersect meridian lines to form a starting point for the measurement of land.
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Bill of Sale
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A written instrument that passes title of personal property from vender (seller) to the vendee (buyer)
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Bundle of Rights
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All of the legal rights relevant to ownership of property including rights of use, possession, encumbering and disposition.
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Chattel or Chattel Real
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A personal property interest in real property; an old term meaning personal property.
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Commission
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An amount, usually a percentage, paid to a broker as compensation for his or her services.
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Condominium
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A structure of two or more units where the interior airspace of each unit is individually owned; the balance of land and improvements is owned on common by all the owners.
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Emblements
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Crops (produced an leased land by a tenant farmer) from an annual cultivation considered personal property.
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Fixtures
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Personal property that has become permanently attached to the land or improvements that are legally treated as real property; examples: plumbing fixtures, or built-in range, etc.
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Meridian Lines
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Imaginary north-south lines used in U.S. government surveys.
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Metes and Bounds
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A legal description of land , setting forth all the boundary lines with their terminal points and angles.
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Personal Property
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Property that is movable and not real property.
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Potable Water
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Water that is suitable for human consumption.
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Range
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A column of land six miles wide, determined by a government survey, running in a north-south direction, lying east or west of a principal meridian.
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Real Property
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Land, improvements, items permanently attached to the land, appurtenances and that which is immovable by law.
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Riparian Rights
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The rights of a landowner, whose land borders a stream or waterway, to use and enjoy the water, provided such use does not injure the rights of other owners.
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Rod
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This old unit of measurement is 16 1/2 feet long (5.5 yards)
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Section
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A square of land (U.S. government survey) that contains 640 acres and is one square mile.
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Township
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In the survey of public lands, a territorial subdivision six miles long, six miles wide and containing 36 sections, each one square mile.
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Trade Fixtures
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Personal property used on a business, attached to the property, but removable by the tenant.
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