California Real Estate Principles and License Preparation

An appurtenance is an object, right, or interest that is incidental to the land and goes with or pertains to the land. "A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case of a way, or watercourse, or of a passage for light, air, or heat from across the land of anothe

Legal distinctions between real and personal property

Riparian rights are the rights of a landowner to the reasonable use of water that flows through or adjacent to his or her property.

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As a general rule, the distinction boils down to this: personal property is considered movable; real property, immovable.

All other considerations being equal, it is generally held that a tenant who installs an item, such as a chandelier, intends to remove the item at the expiration of the lease. However, an owner who installs the same chandelier likely did so with the intention of improving the property, thus making this chandelier a fixture. Following similar reason

In California, both underground and surface waters are owned by the State, and a landowner may take only a "reasonable" amount of underground water for his or her beneficial use. What is "reasonable" in this context is determined on a case-by-case basis.

The most important methods of easement creation are by:

Real vs. Personal Property Property comes in two, and only two, mutually exclusive kinds: real and personal. "Every kind of property that is not real is personal." CC §663. Each kind of property can, under certain circumstances, be transformed into the other kind.