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Dominant tenement
Dominant tenement The estate that is said to attach to and derive benefit from the servient estate in reference to an easement appurtenant.
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Estate
The ownership interest of a person in real property, also used to refer to a deceased person's property.
Easement
A right-of-way created by grant, reservation, agreement, prescription or necessary implication which one has in land owned by another.
Appurtenant
Belonging to; adjunctive; appended or annexed to.
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Domicile
From domus, Latin for "house." The state where an individual has his or her true, fixed permanent home and principal business establishment and where that person has the intention of returning whenever he or she is absent from it.
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Documentary tax stamps
Stamps affixed to a deed showing the amount of transfer tax.
Documentary transfer tax
Tax applicable to property transfers and affixed to the grant deed; varies from county to county, city to city.
Dollar stop
An agreed dollar amount of taxes and operating expense each tenant will pay on a prorated basis
Domed ceiling
A hemispherical ceiling that projects upward without support.
Domicile
From domus, Latin for "house." The state where an individual has his or her true, fixed permanent home and principal business establishment and where that person has the intention of returning whenever he or she is absent from it.
Dominant tenement
Dormer
A window set upright in a sloping roof.
Double taxation
One of the main disadvantages of corporate ownership of income property is that the profits are subject to double taxation.
Double-hung window
A window that consists of two sashes that slide up and down.
Dovetail joints
Joints that lock two pieces of wood together with meshed teeth.
Dower
The rights of a widow to a portion of her deceased husband's property.
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