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Real Estate & Planning
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05/22/2014

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Business cycles
Definition
shifts in the ecoomy ranging from prospertiy to recession and back again
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Economic Base
Definition
The stabel base necessary for a community to grow and prosper created bya diversity of resources, goods and services.
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Free enterprise
Definition
Economic System that provides an open market that allows all perople to participate creating competiion and a favorable business climate
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Gross National Product -GNP
Definition
The value of all goods and services used and produced in this country
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Ownershil cycle
Definition
sequence of hoe purchases made by individual to meet their evolving needs and desires
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accretion
Definition
addition to land through natural causes usually change in water flow
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ad valorem tax
Definition
assessment on real property according to its market value
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adverse possession
Definition
rightful owner loses land to occupant who taken possession in a hostile distinct continuous and actual way for a statutory period
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allochial system
Definition
syatem of land ownership that permits individual to own land in a free simple title in United States
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Arulsion
Definition
loss of land due to sudden change in the flow of water
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Bundle of rights
Definition
legal rights an owner of real estates acuires right of possession enoyment, right to sell and will, and mortage
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chattel
Definition
personal property movable in nature
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codicil
Definition
addition to a will that may alter the provisions of the will
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color of title
Definition
title appears to be good but upon search is found to be defective indicates another may have some rights of ownership
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descent
Definition
property of an intestate passes to heirs by descent
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devise
Definition
gift of real estate by will
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doctorine or prior appropration
Definition
first owner or user has the right to divert water for his use
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durability
Definition
economic characteristic of land that considers improvement mad to land that are not as durable as the land
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easement by prescription
Definition
rights to the land of another gained through continuous use
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eminent domain
Definition
right of govt to take private property for public use upon just payment to the owner
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escheat
Definition
right of soveriegn state to succeed to the property of an intestate with out hiers- person who dies without a will
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Feudal system
Definition
governing body of the land retains ownership of real property
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fixtures
Definition
personal property that becomes real when permanently affixed to the real property such as a light fixture, oven and or range
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hereditaments
Definition
inheritable property real or personal
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immobility
Definition
incapable of being moved, fixed in location an important physical characteristics of land
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intestate
Definition
a person who dies with out a will
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involuntary alienation
Definition
loss of property for nonpayment of debts such as taxes, mortgage and foreclosure
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land
Definition
surface of the earth area above and below the surface everything attached naturally
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land patent
Definition
document issued by govt. granting fee title in public land to miners, settler, and war veterans
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Mill
Definition
a rate of currency used in determing property taxes
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personal property
Definition
moveable itmes not affixed to real property such as chattels
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