Thursday, May 16, 2024, 11:42 PM
Site: Burk Baker School of Real Estate & Appraising
Course: DEMO (DE101)
Glossary: Real Estate Glossary
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CORPORATIONA vehicle used to carry on business with its owners having liability only to the extent of their stock ownership considered to be an individual or separate entity. |
CORPOREALPertaining to a right or group of rights of a visible and tangible nature. |
CORRECTION LINEA system for compensating inaccuracies in the Government Rectangular Survey System which are caused by the curvature of the earth. Every fourth township line, at 24 mile intervals, is used as a correction line on which the intervals between the north and south range lines are re-measured and corrected to a full six miles. |
COUNTER-LETTERAn agreement to re-convey property where the property has been sold with the intention that it shall serve as security only. |
COUNTEROFFERCreated by the rejection of an original offer, the counteroffer invalidates the original offer and in effect constitutes a new offer. |
COVENANTAn agreement written into deeds and other instruments which promises or guarantees that something shall or shall not be done; an agreement stipulating certain uses or non-uses of property. |
CUBIC FOOT METHODA means of estimating a building's value based on the cubic foot construction cost of comparable buildings. |
CUL-DE-SACA passage way or street with only one outlet; a blind alley. |
CURTESYThe right which a husband has in his wife's estate at her death. |