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REAL ESTATE EXAM PREPGEORGIA REAL ESTATE EXAM GLOSSARY
An encroachment is an unauthorized physical intrusion by an improvement onto another parcel or into a protected area, such as a fence, garage, or roof crossing a boundary line.
Property Ownership
Property rights and burdens
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GLOSSARY TERM GUIDEBuild the complete exam definition
Learn the rule, separate it from the nearest distractor, then apply it to a Georgia fact pattern.
What does Encroachment mean?
An encroachment is an unauthorized physical intrusion by an improvement onto another parcel or into a protected area, such as a fence, garage, or roof crossing a boundary line.
How do you separate the nearest exam answer?
An encroachment is a physical intrusion. An easement is a legal right to use another's land. A license is revocable permission.
What changes or stays the same in Georgia?
This is a national ownership concept on the Georgia exam. A survey and the recorded title documents are the evidence to examine in a real Georgia transaction.
A survey shows that a neighbor's garage extends eighteen inches across the recorded lot line without an easement.
Do not choose easement merely because another parcel is affected. Ask whether there is a legal right or an unauthorized object.
PASS GEORGIA
REAL ESTATE EXAM PREPGEORGIA REAL ESTATE EXAM
GLOSSARY TERM GUIDERetrieve the rule under exam conditions
Answer before reading the explanation. Then explain why every distractor belongs to a different term.
A new survey shows the neighbor's wooden fence sits two feet inside the buyer's recorded lot line. There is no written agreement, no recorded easement, and no permission from the owner. What is the fence?
- A
An easement appurtenant
- B
An easement in gross
- C
A revocable license
- D
An encroachment
An encroachment is an improvement that physically crosses onto another parcel without a legal right to be there. With no agreement, easement, or permission, the fence is an encroachment. The easement answers are tempting because another parcel is affected, but an easement is a legal right, and none exists here.
Mark each box only when you can perform the skill without looking.
I can define the term in one precise sentence.
I can separate it from the closest look-alike.
I can explain the Georgia rule or confirm that the national rule applies.
I can answer the practice check and explain every option.
PASS GEORGIA
REAL ESTATE EXAM PREPGEORGIA REAL ESTATE EXAM
GLOSSARY TERM GUIDEConnect the term to the wider exam
Use these relationships to move from isolated recall to a connected exam model.
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