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The planting of trees under silvicultural prescriptions in areas where trees were once located but no longer exist due to disturbance (harvest, fire, wind, insects, etc.).

The outcome of an experiment conducted using the scientific method. This observed result is compared to the expected result according to the research hypothesis, and a conclusion is made about whether the results support or contradict the hypothesis.

The legal process through which an estate is returned to the grantor, usually in fee ownership, after the grantee's estate ends.

The grantee's estate may end for a number of reasons. For example, the grantor may have specified that the grantee's interest in the property expires on a certain date. Other examples of different estates and the events that might end them include:
1. The death of the life tenant (conventional life estate) or the person upon whose life the duration of the life estate was based (life estate pur autre vie).
2. Violation of a condition (estate in qualified fee subject to condition subsequent) or limitation (estate in qualified fee determinable) specified by the grantor.

Contrast with remainder.

The interest in a conventional life estate (or an estate pur autre vie) that is retained by the grantor of the estate if no remainderman is named and that allows the grantor to recover ownership of the property once the life estate ends.

Anything that can be revoked, removed, annulled, withdrawn, cancelled, or repealed.

A permanent change in zoning laws from one permitted land use type (zoning district) to another. For example, a residential zone might be reclassified as industrial or commercial, based on changing community dynamics or needs.

The bank of a stream or river channel located to the right as one faces in the direction of the current (downstream).

Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Geography, Hydrology, Science, Water

The practice of adjoining landowners meeting at mid-point of a common partition fence and agreeing that one landowner will maintain the partition fence to the right of the midpoint and the other owner will maintain the fence to the left.

A legal right appurtenant to some types of estates in real property, including estates in fee simple absolute and estates in fee simple defeasible, that allows title to the property to be transferred to the decedent's heirs by will (devise).

Definition:
The reversionary right and future interest retained by the grantor of an estate in qualified fee subject to condition subsequent. The right of re-entry allows the grantor to recover fee simple ownership of real property if a condition stipulated in the deed is violated. Action in a court with jurisdiction over real estate matters is required to recover ownership of property under the right of reentry.
Contrast with Possibility of reverter.


Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Real Estate, Title and Title Insurance, Legal (Law), Management

A right to or interest in real property that is retained by the grantor of certain types of estates and that allows him or her to recover full fee ownership of the property under certain conditions. Rights of reversion can be thought of as secondary estates that are created when certain types of estates in real property are granted. Rights of reversion are property in and of themselves and, as such, can be transferred, sold, or inherited. The events that trigger reversion differ by type of estate; estates in real property with rights of reversion include:
Conventional life estate
Life estate pur autre vie
Estate in qualified fee determinable
Estate in qualified fee conditional

A main or primary drainage channel and its associated tributaries, larger than a stream.

Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Hydrology, Science, Water

The semi-impermeable and impermeable layers located at the bottom of a river or stream channel; the bottom of a river channel, beneath which water does not penetrate or penetrates extremely slowly.

Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Geology, Hydrology, Science, Water

A unit of length used in land surveys. The terms, rods, poles, and perches are equivalent and may be used interchangeably, although "rod" is the most common. One (1) rod is equal to 25 links, 16.5 feet, or 1/4 (0.25) chain. For conversions and examples, see Rod, pole, or perch equivalents and conversions and the various Converting rods, poles, or perches to... entries.

A rod is a unit of length used in land surveys.
One (1) rod is equal to one (1) pole or perch.
One (1) rod is equal to 16.5 feet.
One (1) rod is equal to 0.25 chains.
One (1) rod is equal to 25 links.
One (1) rod is equal to 0.025 furlongs.
One (1) rod is equal to 198 inches.
One (1) rod is equal to 5.5 yards.
One (1) rod is equal to 0.0031 miles.
One (1) rod is equal to 502.92 centimeters.
One (1) rod is equal to 5.0292 meters.
One (1) rod is equal to 0.00503 kilometers.

Unit of area measurement equal to 1/4 (0.25) acre, 40 square rods, or 10,890.0 square feet. For more rood conversions, see rood conversions or equivalents or converting roods.

One (1) rood is equal to 1/4 (0.25) acre. One (1) rood is equal to 40 square rods. One (1) rood is equal to 2.5 square chains. One (1) rood is equal to 10,890.0 square feet. One (1) rood is equal to 1,210.0square yards. One (1) rood is equal to 0.2959 arpents. One (1) rood is equal to 0.0004 sections or square miles. One (1) rood is equal to 0.00001 townships. One (1) rood is equal to 1,011.7141 square meters. One (1) rood is equal to 0.1012 hectares. One (1) rood is equal to 0.001 square kilometers.

The number of years required to grow trees to an ideal size or age; usually trees are grown to either economic maturity or natural maturity.

Definition: A discrete portion of an auction during which all bidders have the opportunity to place a bid on an item or property for sale. Bidders may be or may not be allowed to modify their bids within an individual round, according to the rules of the auction.

Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Auction, Real Estate

Lasting for an indefinite period of time; without an endpoint; of unlimited duration.

Water that flows over the earth's surface; precipitation that falls to the earth, is not infiltrated, evaporated, or transpired, and exceeds the capacity of the soil or the vegetation to absorb it.
Also known as Surface runoff.

Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Agriculture, Ecology, Forestry and Silviculture, Hydrology, Management, Pollution, Science, Water