WA Real Estate Fundamentals Chapter 1
Questions and Answers
Real Property - answer Land, attachments, and appurtenances
Personal Property - answer anything that is not real property, its main characteristic
is movability
Appurtenance - answer A right incidental to the land that is transferred with it
Emblements - answer Crops, such as wheat, produced annually through the labor of
the cultivator
Trade fixtures - answer personal property attached to real property by a tenant for
use in a trade or business. Removable by tenant
Riparian rights - answer The water rights of a landowner whose land borders on a
stream or other surface water. Allows only reasonable use of the water.
Littoral Rights - answer Land bordered by a stationary body of water, such as a lake
or pond.
Appropriative Rights - answer Water rights established by obtaining a government
permit and not based on ownership of land beside a body of water
Lateral Support - answer The physical support that a piece of land receives from the
surrounding land
Subjacent support - answer the physical support that a piece of land receives from
the underlying earth
Government survey - answer system of land description in which the land is divided
into squares called townships (ea township is 36 sections - each 1 square mile)
Township - answer Parcel of land that is 6 square miles and contains 36 sections
Section - answer 1 square mild of land containing 640 acres.
Questions and Answers
Real Property - answer Land, attachments, and appurtenances
Personal Property - answer anything that is not real property, its main characteristic
is movability
Appurtenance - answer A right incidental to the land that is transferred with it
Emblements - answer Crops, such as wheat, produced annually through the labor of
the cultivator
Trade fixtures - answer personal property attached to real property by a tenant for
use in a trade or business. Removable by tenant
Riparian rights - answer The water rights of a landowner whose land borders on a
stream or other surface water. Allows only reasonable use of the water.
Littoral Rights - answer Land bordered by a stationary body of water, such as a lake
or pond.
Appropriative Rights - answer Water rights established by obtaining a government
permit and not based on ownership of land beside a body of water
Lateral Support - answer The physical support that a piece of land receives from the
surrounding land
Subjacent support - answer the physical support that a piece of land receives from
the underlying earth
Government survey - answer system of land description in which the land is divided
into squares called townships (ea township is 36 sections - each 1 square mile)
Township - answer Parcel of land that is 6 square miles and contains 36 sections
Section - answer 1 square mild of land containing 640 acres.
