WASHINGTON STATE REAL ESTATE
CONTRACTS AND TRANSACTIONS
ASSESSMENT SCRIPT 2026
◉ 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. Trade fixtures are removable by the
tenant.
◉ Riparian rights
,Answer: The water rights of a landowner whose land borders on a
stream or other surface water. Riparian rights allow only reasonable
use of the water.
◉ Littoral land
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.
◉ Air lot
Answer: A parcel of property above the surface of the earth, not
containing any land: for example, a condominium unit on the third
floor.
, ◉ Lot and Block
Answer: The system of description used for subdivided land. The
properties within a subdivision are assigned lot numbers on a
survey map called a plat, which is then recorded. The location and
dimensions of a particular lot can be determined by consulting the
recorded plat.
◉ Government lot
Answer: In the government survey system, a parcel of land that is
not a regular section.
◉ Section
Answer: A one-square-mile block of land, containing 640 acres, or
approximately 1/36 of a township.
◉ Township
Answer: The intersection of a range and a township tier in the
government survey system. It is a parcel of land that is six miles
square and contains 36 sections.
◉ metes and bounds
CONTRACTS AND TRANSACTIONS
ASSESSMENT SCRIPT 2026
◉ 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. Trade fixtures are removable by the
tenant.
◉ Riparian rights
,Answer: The water rights of a landowner whose land borders on a
stream or other surface water. Riparian rights allow only reasonable
use of the water.
◉ Littoral land
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.
◉ Air lot
Answer: A parcel of property above the surface of the earth, not
containing any land: for example, a condominium unit on the third
floor.
, ◉ Lot and Block
Answer: The system of description used for subdivided land. The
properties within a subdivision are assigned lot numbers on a
survey map called a plat, which is then recorded. The location and
dimensions of a particular lot can be determined by consulting the
recorded plat.
◉ Government lot
Answer: In the government survey system, a parcel of land that is
not a regular section.
◉ Section
Answer: A one-square-mile block of land, containing 640 acres, or
approximately 1/36 of a township.
◉ Township
Answer: The intersection of a range and a township tier in the
government survey system. It is a parcel of land that is six miles
square and contains 36 sections.
◉ metes and bounds
