Principles of Real Estate Exam
Questions with Answers
Acre - ✔✔Measures to 43,560 square feet, or 160 rods.
Allodial Tenure - ✔✔Type of system where individuals own land
Feudal Tenure - ✔✔Type of system where the government/monarchy owns land
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) - ✔✔Signed by Mexico giving California to the USA.
1850 - ✔✔California was admitted to the Union
Metes and Bounds - ✔✔Describes property by its perimeters and uses a starting point,
distance, and direction. (Ex: 30 ft right from large rock)
US Goverment Survey - ✔✔Created by Congress in 1785 to standardize land descriptions. Uses
Section and Township Method
Base lines - ✔✔imaginary lines that run east/west. Also called Township lines
Meridian lines - ✔✔imaginary lines run north/south. Also called range lines
3 Main Base/Meridian Lines - ✔✔Humboldt, Mt. Diablo, San Bernadino
Correction lines - ✔✔Run every 24 miles
, A township - ✔✔Consists of 36 sections.
A square mile - ✔✔Consists of 640 acres
A section (in a township) - ✔✔consists of 1 square mile
Lot, Block, and Tract Systems - ✔✔A type of property description using approved subdivision
maps.
Real property - ✔✔Immovable.
Includes Land, Mineral Rights, Lateral Support Rights, Airspace Rights, and Riparian Rights
Riparian Rights - ✔✔The right of a landowner whose land borders on a stream or watercourse
to use and enjoy the water which is adjacent to or flows over the owners land provided such
use does not injure other riparian owners.
Accretion - ✔✔Gradual addition of sediment to the shore by flowing water
Alluvium - ✔✔The land/sediment added to a shore by flowing water
Reliction - ✔✔The addition of land by the removal of water. Ex: a dried pond
Littoral Rights - ✔✔the right of landowners on a shore of an ocean or a large lake to use the
water. Key: water that does not 'flow'.
Appurtenant - ✔✔Belonging to; adjunct; appended or annexed to. Appurtenant items pass with
the land when the property is transferred.
Questions with Answers
Acre - ✔✔Measures to 43,560 square feet, or 160 rods.
Allodial Tenure - ✔✔Type of system where individuals own land
Feudal Tenure - ✔✔Type of system where the government/monarchy owns land
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) - ✔✔Signed by Mexico giving California to the USA.
1850 - ✔✔California was admitted to the Union
Metes and Bounds - ✔✔Describes property by its perimeters and uses a starting point,
distance, and direction. (Ex: 30 ft right from large rock)
US Goverment Survey - ✔✔Created by Congress in 1785 to standardize land descriptions. Uses
Section and Township Method
Base lines - ✔✔imaginary lines that run east/west. Also called Township lines
Meridian lines - ✔✔imaginary lines run north/south. Also called range lines
3 Main Base/Meridian Lines - ✔✔Humboldt, Mt. Diablo, San Bernadino
Correction lines - ✔✔Run every 24 miles
, A township - ✔✔Consists of 36 sections.
A square mile - ✔✔Consists of 640 acres
A section (in a township) - ✔✔consists of 1 square mile
Lot, Block, and Tract Systems - ✔✔A type of property description using approved subdivision
maps.
Real property - ✔✔Immovable.
Includes Land, Mineral Rights, Lateral Support Rights, Airspace Rights, and Riparian Rights
Riparian Rights - ✔✔The right of a landowner whose land borders on a stream or watercourse
to use and enjoy the water which is adjacent to or flows over the owners land provided such
use does not injure other riparian owners.
Accretion - ✔✔Gradual addition of sediment to the shore by flowing water
Alluvium - ✔✔The land/sediment added to a shore by flowing water
Reliction - ✔✔The addition of land by the removal of water. Ex: a dried pond
Littoral Rights - ✔✔the right of landowners on a shore of an ocean or a large lake to use the
water. Key: water that does not 'flow'.
Appurtenant - ✔✔Belonging to; adjunct; appended or annexed to. Appurtenant items pass with
the land when the property is transferred.
