An easement that benefits an adjoining parcel of land and transfers automatically with the dominant estate.
Why Easement Appurtenant matters on the exam
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Exam questions using Easement Appurtenant
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Which best describes the legal nature of a leasehold estate?
A form of personal property, sometimes called a chattel real
A freehold estate of indefinite duration
An easement appurtenant to the leased land
A lien against the landlord's fee title
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A form of personal property, sometimes called a chattel real — Although a leasehold involves rights in real property, the tenant's interest itself is classified as personal property, traditionally termed a chattel real, distinguishing it from the landlord's freehold estate.
Source: PSI National Real Estate Exam Content Outline §8 Leasing & Property Management
A recorded subdivision restriction limiting all lots to single-story homes is an example of:
A zoning ordinance enforced by the city
A public land-use control
A restrictive covenant that runs with the land
An easement appurtenant
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A restrictive covenant that runs with the land — Restrictive covenants are private land-use controls created in deeds or subdivision declarations. When properly recorded they run with the land, binding all future owners regardless of later sales.
Source: PSI National Real Estate Exam Content Outline §2 Land Use Controls
An easement appurtenant requires:
Only a servient tenement, with no dominant tenement involved
A written lease agreement between neighboring owners
That both parcels be owned by the same single person
A dominant tenement that benefits and a servient tenement that is burdened
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A dominant tenement that benefits and a servient tenement that is burdened — An easement appurtenant always involves two parcels of land: the dominant tenement, which receives the benefit, and the servient tenement, which bears the burden of the easement.
Source: PSI National Real Estate Exam Content Outline §1 Property Ownership
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