Property Ownership and Land Use
Controls and Regulations (15%)
Adverse Possession - correct answer ✔✔A method of acquiring title to real property by a person other
than the owner of record through open possession of the property for a five-year statutory period and
payment of property taxes.
Appurtenance - correct answer ✔✔A right belonging to a property, affect title to other property; all
those rights, privileges, and improvements which belong to and pass with the transfer of the property,
but which are not a part of the property. Appurtenances to real property pass with the real property to
which they are appurtenant, unless a contrary intention is manifested. Typical appurtenances are rights-
of-way, easements, water rights, and use of improvements located on other property.
Easement - correct answer ✔✔A right held by on property owner to use the land of another for a
specific purpose, such as ingress and egress to the owner's property.
Eminent Domain - correct answer ✔✔The right of government to take private property for public use.
The government on the taking pays the owner the fair market value of the property.
Encroachment - correct answer ✔✔An improvement on one parcel of real estate which extends onto
real estate belonging to another person.
Escheat - correct answer ✔✔The reverting of property to the State when heirs capable of inheriting are
lacking. Only state government may acquire property through escheat, never an individual.
Estate - correct answer ✔✔The interests a person may hold in real property, as defined by statute.
Hypothecate - correct answer ✔✔To pledge a thing as security without the necessity of giving up
possession of it. To mortgage a property
Ingress and egress - correct answer ✔✔Access to a property by its owner directly from publicly
dedicated streets or by using their right to traverse a portion of another's land using an easement.
, Life Estate - correct answer ✔✔An interest held in a parcel of real estate lasting the lifetime of the
named life
Lis Pendens - correct answer ✔✔A notice recorded for the the purpose of warning all persons that the
title or rifht to possession of the described real property is in litigation; literally suit pending; recorded to
give constructive notice of pending litigation.
Police Power - correct answer ✔✔The constitutional source of the state or local government's authority
to act. The basis for laws governing such things as highway construction and maintenance, rent control,
public health and safety, zoning and traffic.
Reversion - correct answer ✔✔The interest which a person has in land or other property which is
received on termination of the preceding estate.
Riparian Rights - correct answer ✔✔The right of a real estate owner to take surface water from a running
water source contiguous to their land.
Section - correct answer ✔✔A portion of land established by government survey which contains 640
acres and is one mile square.
Solar Easement - correct answer ✔✔An easement restricting an owner's ability to maintain
improvements, such as trees, interfering with a neighbor's solar energy system.
Subdivided Lands Law - correct answer ✔✔Government regulations that empower the Real Estate
Commissioner to approve a public report for the sale of property divided and developed by land owners.
Subdivision Map Act - correct answer ✔✔A California subdivision law stating conditions for the approval
of a subdivision map and requiring local governments to enact ordinances directly controlling the types
of subdivision projects permitted and the physical improvements to be installed.
Tenement - correct answer ✔✔A freehold interest in land and things immovable located on the land.
Controls and Regulations (15%)
Adverse Possession - correct answer ✔✔A method of acquiring title to real property by a person other
than the owner of record through open possession of the property for a five-year statutory period and
payment of property taxes.
Appurtenance - correct answer ✔✔A right belonging to a property, affect title to other property; all
those rights, privileges, and improvements which belong to and pass with the transfer of the property,
but which are not a part of the property. Appurtenances to real property pass with the real property to
which they are appurtenant, unless a contrary intention is manifested. Typical appurtenances are rights-
of-way, easements, water rights, and use of improvements located on other property.
Easement - correct answer ✔✔A right held by on property owner to use the land of another for a
specific purpose, such as ingress and egress to the owner's property.
Eminent Domain - correct answer ✔✔The right of government to take private property for public use.
The government on the taking pays the owner the fair market value of the property.
Encroachment - correct answer ✔✔An improvement on one parcel of real estate which extends onto
real estate belonging to another person.
Escheat - correct answer ✔✔The reverting of property to the State when heirs capable of inheriting are
lacking. Only state government may acquire property through escheat, never an individual.
Estate - correct answer ✔✔The interests a person may hold in real property, as defined by statute.
Hypothecate - correct answer ✔✔To pledge a thing as security without the necessity of giving up
possession of it. To mortgage a property
Ingress and egress - correct answer ✔✔Access to a property by its owner directly from publicly
dedicated streets or by using their right to traverse a portion of another's land using an easement.
, Life Estate - correct answer ✔✔An interest held in a parcel of real estate lasting the lifetime of the
named life
Lis Pendens - correct answer ✔✔A notice recorded for the the purpose of warning all persons that the
title or rifht to possession of the described real property is in litigation; literally suit pending; recorded to
give constructive notice of pending litigation.
Police Power - correct answer ✔✔The constitutional source of the state or local government's authority
to act. The basis for laws governing such things as highway construction and maintenance, rent control,
public health and safety, zoning and traffic.
Reversion - correct answer ✔✔The interest which a person has in land or other property which is
received on termination of the preceding estate.
Riparian Rights - correct answer ✔✔The right of a real estate owner to take surface water from a running
water source contiguous to their land.
Section - correct answer ✔✔A portion of land established by government survey which contains 640
acres and is one mile square.
Solar Easement - correct answer ✔✔An easement restricting an owner's ability to maintain
improvements, such as trees, interfering with a neighbor's solar energy system.
Subdivided Lands Law - correct answer ✔✔Government regulations that empower the Real Estate
Commissioner to approve a public report for the sale of property divided and developed by land owners.
Subdivision Map Act - correct answer ✔✔A California subdivision law stating conditions for the approval
of a subdivision map and requiring local governments to enact ordinances directly controlling the types
of subdivision projects permitted and the physical improvements to be installed.
Tenement - correct answer ✔✔A freehold interest in land and things immovable located on the land.
