Acre, A measure of land area equal to 43,560 square feet., Air Lot, A designated air space over a parcel of land. In condominiums, each individual unit occupies a separate air lot., Air Rights, The right to use and enjoy the air space above a parcel of land. Such rights may be leased or sold separately from the land., Appurtenance, Anything that may be used with the land for its benefit and goes to the new owner when ownership of the land is transferred. Mineral rights, air rights, water rights, easements, improvements and natural attachments are appurtenant to the land., Artificial Monuments, Man-made objects such as streets, fences, iron pins, concrete posts, etc., Baseline, Certain reference lines which run east and west; used in the rectangular survey system to locate land., Bench Mark, A permanent reference point of known location used by surveyors. A bench mark may be a point established by a government survey team or a fixed monument such as a road right-of-way., Bill of Sale, A document which conveys ownership to personal property., Call, The compass direction and distance for each boundary line., Chattel, Personal property., Closure, The metes and bounds legal description must return to the point of beginning or the description is incomplete., Constructive Severance, The transfer to someone other than the owner of the land the rights to remove attachments such as timber , or buildings, or the right to remove minerals., Contour Map, a drawing that shows the shape and height of the land using lines that connect points of equal elevation., Contour, The shape of the earth’s surface, Correlative Rights, The doctrine of law which allows riparian owners in certain states to use only a reasonable share of the water during periods of drought., Datum, A point of surface of known location from which heights and depths are measured. The basic point from which vertical land (air rights and mineral rights) is described., Emblements:, Crops that require annual cultivation. They are considered personal property even though attached to the land. Also called Fructus Industriales., Fixture, An item that was once personal property but has become real property because of the manner in which it was attached to the land or its improvements., Fructus Industriales, Crops that are planted and harvested each year., Fructus Naturales, Growing things which require no annual cultivation., Government Survey, A land description system that divides land into townships and ranges using meridians and baselines, creating a grid of square sections (used mainly in western U.S.), Improvements, Any permanent, man-made attachment to the land, such as buildings, fences, roads, or pipelines. Also known as arterial attachment., Land, An area which starts at the center of the earth, passes through the earth’s surface and extends into space., Law of Capture, The law which allows a well drilled on one property to extract oil or gas reserves from under adjoin properties., Legal Description, A description of land legally sufficient to distinguish it from all other parcels., Littoral Rights, A landowners lawful claim to use and enjoy the water of a large lake or ocean bordering the owned property., Meridians, Certain reference lines which run north and south used in the rectangular survey system to locate land. The north-south line on a compass., Metes and Bounds, A method of legally describing land by measuring directions and distances of its boundary lines., Mineral Rights, A landowner’s legal interest in minerals below the surface of his land. Such rights are considered to be appurtenant to the land and may be sold or leased separately., Monument, A fixed point or object used to denote the end point of a boundary line in a metes and bounds description..

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