Utah Real Estate Class Arti Questions and
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Affixed
✓ -:- Typically in reference to mineral, water, or surface rights, resources
that go with the property are affixed.
Annexation
✓ -:- The process of personal property becoming real property. With
reference to subsurface rights, annexation is adding water or mineral
rights to the property. Legal tests include method of annexation,
adaptability, relationship of the parties.
Appurtenance
✓ -:- Something that comes with real property. Water or a well, or an
easement could be an appurtenance.
Bundle of Rights
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✓ -:- Right of Possession, Right of Use, Right of Exclusion, Right of
Disposition.
Concept: owners of real property have certain rights. Others are reserved to the
government or other owners. The bundle includes the right of possession, right of use, right
of quiet enjoyment, right of exclusion, right of disposition.
Chattel
✓ -:- Another name for personal property, or personalty.
Easement
✓ -:- The right to use or access another property.
Emblements
✓ -:- Something that can be severed or removed from the property.
Fixture
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✓ -:- Anything that is actually fastened to the real property. Fixtures
become part of the real property.
Hypothecation
✓ -:- The ability to pledge my property as collateral in exchange for a
loan.
Improvement
✓ -:- Anything that has been built on the real property.
Legal Description
✓ -:- The way real property is described. Includes metes and bounds,
rectangular survey (for government survey), and lot and block (or
subdivision method).
Concept:
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Understanding how metes and bounds, rectangular (or government survey), and lot and
block (or subdivision method) legal descriptions are used is critical to accurately describing
property that is to be transferred.
Personal Property
✓ -:- Anything that is not attached or made part of the structure itself.
Also called chattel or personality.
Concept: Also known as chattel or personality, personal property are those things that are
owned that are not attached to the land. They can be moved from place to place. Once
emblements are removed from the real property, they become personal property. Anything
that was attached to the real property that is severed becomes personal property. Anything
that is owned but not attached or affixed to real property is personal property.
Personalty
✓ -:- Another name for personal property
Real Estate
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