Real Estate Principals and Practices

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Nature and Description of Real Estate
Chapter 2. Jacobus
  1. Land defined
    1. Definition: Land and anything permanently attached to the land. Real estate is fixed, immovable, and permanent, it includes the land, structures affixed to the land, property affixed to the structures and sometimes the things growing on the land.
    2. Method of Conveyance: Deed
    3. Basic Characteristic: Immovable
    4. Distinguished from Personalty
  2. Improvements defined
  3. Fixtures defined
    1. Manner of Attachment
    2. Adaptation of the object
    3. Intention/agreement
    4. Relationship of parties
    5. Growing things
  4. Appurtenances defined
  5. Water rights
  6. Land Descriptions
    1. Informal reference
    2. Legal Description Methods
      1. Metes and Bounds
      2. Rectangular Survey System
      3. Recorded Plat or Lot and Block
    3. Other Description Types
      1. Assessor's Parcel
      2. Other Document References
  7. Vertical Land Description
  8. Lot Types
  9. Physical characteristics of land
    1. Immobility
    2. Indestructibility
    3. Nonhomogeneity
  10. Economic characteristics of land
    1. Scarcity
    2. Modification
    3. Fixity
    4. Situs
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