Unit 3: The Bundle of Rights

Which 5 rights are included in the "bundle of rights"?

1.) Control 2.) disposition 3.) enjoyment 4.) exclusion 5.) possession

Lowell used to own 17 acres of property on the bay. After last year's hurricanes, Lowell now owns 15.5 acres of bayfront property. Which natural process was responsible for Lowell's loss of acreage?

Avulsion

Property owner Craig likes to sunbathe in the nude in his nice, private backyard. What part of the bundle of rights allows him to do this legally?

Enjoyment

control

I can manage my property, within the law

posession

I can occupy my property in privacy

exclusion

I can prohibit others from entering my property

disposition

I can sell, mortgage, or give away my property

enjoyment

I can use my property as I wish, within the law

Property ownership gives the title holder a bundle of rights. What's significant about the concept of a bundle of rights?

It describes the ability to separate one right from the others while leaving the rest of the bundle intact.

What classification of water rights includes the two smaller sub-classifications of navigable and non-navigable waterways?

Riparian

Avulsion refers to the loss of land by sudden large-scale water flow (T/F)

True

Erosion may be caused by wind, water, or other natural forces (T/F)

True

Darlene sells the space above her candy shop, up to the height allowed by law, to the developer

air

Jose's property area expanded every few years due to the accretion of soil from the river

alluvion

Yvonne's favorite beach is now gone-due to a hurricane.

avulsion

Carlotta loves the river bend that borders the property, but she doesn't like how the river eats away at her land.

erosion

Alluvion and reliction are both processes that reduce the actual of land a landowner owns (t/f)

false

Littoral water rights are related to land that's next to flowing bodies of water such as rivers or streams (t/f)

false

Water rights based on the doctrine of prior appropriation are different than other types of water rights, because prior appropriation isn't based on...

location of water

Tom's lake is gradually receding, providing more beachfront area

reliction

Denny sells the rights to any minerals, including oil, that could be mined from beneath its property.

subsurface

Doug sells the right to extract gravel from the surface of his property

surface

Landowners adjacent to a commercially navigable river own the land just to water's edge (T/F)

true

Landowners adjacent to non-navigable waterways own the land under the water center of the waterway (T/F)

true