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1. property in common law terminology is an ownership or use relationship between people
and objects
2. Corporeals are animate or inanimate things that can be touched or physically felt, like tangible
items.
3. Incorporeals are things without a body but that can be understood. Ideas and ideals, like liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, are __. The rights involved in owning property are
__.
4. Private things Things that can be privately owned, like residential land or housing
5. Public things Things owned by the state, like running water, streets, parks, etc.
6. Common things Things that can't be possessed, like air and the open ocean.
7. Immovable things can't be moved without altering or damaging them in some way, such as
a house.
8. Movable things can be easily moved, like personal property, such as a car.
9. real estate Louisiana real estate license law defines __ as land and anything built on that
land, including condominiums, leasehold interests, and other interests in land.
10. separate immov- When someone other than the landowner owns any building(s) or component
ables part(s), those are _____. For example, if a farmer leases the land on which he
grows crops, the farmer owns the crops before the harvest, but the landowner
owns the land.
11. Component by An integral part of an immovable, like bricks used to build a house
incorporation
12. Component by
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Joined to a structure or other construction, like doors, gutters, and systems (e.g.,
plumbing, heating, and electrical, etc.); removal would cause substantial damage
to the structure
13. Component by Things an owner declares he or she owns, places on the immovable, uses to ben-
declaration and efit the immovable, and registers with the parish's conveyance records; typically,
registry equipment or machinery and includes mobile homes
14. de-immobilized When an immovable's component parts are damaged or deteriorate to the point
that that they're of no use to the immovable (land or structures)
15. Corporeal mov- can be moved from one place to another and can be animate or inanimate.
ables
16. Movables by an- are unharvested crops and produce that belong to someone other than the
ticipation landowner. The plants
themselves, like pecan trees, may be considered immovables; the pecans are
movables by anticipation.
17. arpent system Around 1716, the French employed the __ in Louisiana, dividing riparian land
(alongside rivers and other navigable waters) into long lots and using arpents and
toise for land measurements. These offered narrow water frontage with arable
land behind it.
18. ligas and varas Later, the Spanish opted to leave the arpent system in place to avoid settler uproar,
but chose to survey lands further west into divisions known as ranchos (sitios)
using ___ (leagues) and ___ (rods) as units of measurement.
19. metes-and-boundsSome French territory went to the English, who used the ___ method. With this
surveying system, geographical or fabricated features meet to form a parcel's
boundaries. Waterways, trees, boulders, roads, and structures were all used as
features.
20.
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1. property in common law terminology is an ownership or use relationship between people
and objects
2. Corporeals are animate or inanimate things that can be touched or physically felt, like tangible
items.
3. Incorporeals are things without a body but that can be understood. Ideas and ideals, like liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, are __. The rights involved in owning property are
__.
4. Private things Things that can be privately owned, like residential land or housing
5. Public things Things owned by the state, like running water, streets, parks, etc.
6. Common things Things that can't be possessed, like air and the open ocean.
7. Immovable things can't be moved without altering or damaging them in some way, such as
a house.
8. Movable things can be easily moved, like personal property, such as a car.
9. real estate Louisiana real estate license law defines __ as land and anything built on that
land, including condominiums, leasehold interests, and other interests in land.
10. separate immov- When someone other than the landowner owns any building(s) or component
ables part(s), those are _____. For example, if a farmer leases the land on which he
grows crops, the farmer owns the crops before the harvest, but the landowner
owns the land.
11. Component by An integral part of an immovable, like bricks used to build a house
incorporation
12. Component by
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Joined to a structure or other construction, like doors, gutters, and systems (e.g.,
plumbing, heating, and electrical, etc.); removal would cause substantial damage
to the structure
13. Component by Things an owner declares he or she owns, places on the immovable, uses to ben-
declaration and efit the immovable, and registers with the parish's conveyance records; typically,
registry equipment or machinery and includes mobile homes
14. de-immobilized When an immovable's component parts are damaged or deteriorate to the point
that that they're of no use to the immovable (land or structures)
15. Corporeal mov- can be moved from one place to another and can be animate or inanimate.
ables
16. Movables by an- are unharvested crops and produce that belong to someone other than the
ticipation landowner. The plants
themselves, like pecan trees, may be considered immovables; the pecans are
movables by anticipation.
17. arpent system Around 1716, the French employed the __ in Louisiana, dividing riparian land
(alongside rivers and other navigable waters) into long lots and using arpents and
toise for land measurements. These offered narrow water frontage with arable
land behind it.
18. ligas and varas Later, the Spanish opted to leave the arpent system in place to avoid settler uproar,
but chose to survey lands further west into divisions known as ranchos (sitios)
using ___ (leagues) and ___ (rods) as units of measurement.
19. metes-and-boundsSome French territory went to the English, who used the ___ method. With this
surveying system, geographical or fabricated features meet to form a parcel's
boundaries. Waterways, trees, boulders, roads, and structures were all used as
features.
20.
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