Texas Real Estate Principles 2 Questions
with 100% Correct Answers | Graded A+
Public restrictions - ✔✔Use of real proeprty are those associated with
goverments intervetion
Eminent domain - ✔✔Power given to government agencies to take private
property for public use or purpose
Taxation - ✔✔Right of the government to tax the owners of private property to
raise revenue for both general purposes and special assessments, which have a
defined purpose
Escheat - ✔✔Process by which private property reverts to the government
when the owner dies without heirs and without a will (intestate)
Police power - ✔✔Government's authority to regulate the health, safety,
welfare, and morals of its citizens
Power of eminent domain - ✔✔Permits the government to take private
property under from an owner for the public good, paying fair market value
(just compensation)
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, Physical taking - ✔✔When the government actually takes and occupies private
land for what is indisputably a public purpose, such as building a public building
or establishing a public road or utility easement
Regulatory taking - ✔✔When the government does not physically take private
real property, but places an excessive amount of restrictions on the use that can
be made of land
Comprehensive plan - ✔✔Official public document that acts as a long-range,
general guide for growth and development
Zoning - ✔✔Regulation by a municipality of the use of land located with the
municipality's corporate limits as well as the regulation of the buildings and
structures located thereon
Height limits - ✔✔State how tall the building can be above the average grade
Setbacks - ✔✔Limit how close a structure can be built to neighboring property
lines
Minimum lot size limits - ✔✔How small the parcels can be if the property were
subdivided
Zoning districts - ✔✔Are all of the possible classifications that might be given to
any particular parcel of land
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with 100% Correct Answers | Graded A+
Public restrictions - ✔✔Use of real proeprty are those associated with
goverments intervetion
Eminent domain - ✔✔Power given to government agencies to take private
property for public use or purpose
Taxation - ✔✔Right of the government to tax the owners of private property to
raise revenue for both general purposes and special assessments, which have a
defined purpose
Escheat - ✔✔Process by which private property reverts to the government
when the owner dies without heirs and without a will (intestate)
Police power - ✔✔Government's authority to regulate the health, safety,
welfare, and morals of its citizens
Power of eminent domain - ✔✔Permits the government to take private
property under from an owner for the public good, paying fair market value
(just compensation)
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©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, Physical taking - ✔✔When the government actually takes and occupies private
land for what is indisputably a public purpose, such as building a public building
or establishing a public road or utility easement
Regulatory taking - ✔✔When the government does not physically take private
real property, but places an excessive amount of restrictions on the use that can
be made of land
Comprehensive plan - ✔✔Official public document that acts as a long-range,
general guide for growth and development
Zoning - ✔✔Regulation by a municipality of the use of land located with the
municipality's corporate limits as well as the regulation of the buildings and
structures located thereon
Height limits - ✔✔State how tall the building can be above the average grade
Setbacks - ✔✔Limit how close a structure can be built to neighboring property
lines
Minimum lot size limits - ✔✔How small the parcels can be if the property were
subdivided
Zoning districts - ✔✔Are all of the possible classifications that might be given to
any particular parcel of land
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