Delaware, and the remaining portion of the original British Colonies, has some land that's leased as opposed to owned by the residents of that land. Much of it is not evident to the casual observer.The land on Lewes Beach is leased, not owned by the house owners. The land of Lewes Beach is owned by the Town of Lewes. The lands of Rehoboth by the Sea and Dewey Beach include leased land too. A lot of the leases on that land will NOT be renewed but will return to the owners and the homes along with that land will undoubtedly be removed by the house owners at their expense. A lot of the land in Riverdale, on Indian River Bay, adjacent to Oak Orchard is leased as well. In Riverdale the leased land is owned by Canninghill Piers Chief Clark of the Nanticoke Indians.
We've about 50 % the inhabitants of Sussex County living on leased land; most of that leased land is within what individuals call mobile home parks or communities. However, in those communities you will find seldom any homes which can be truly mobile and you will find even two story stick built homes on a number of the leased lands in those communities. Condominiums and town houses are sometimes found on leased land as well. Some folks find all this rather difficult to understand.We Realtors and Attorneys use the term fee simple to spell it out land that's being sold as real property; that's real estate. We used the word leased land or leasehold interest to describe land that's not transferring as real estate.This rather lengthy text is regarding Leased Land, Real Estate, Private Property, Chattels, Mobile Homes, Homes on Leased Land and a legal dissertation to define, describe and determine the differences.
Therefore personal property, is that which may be easily taken off the real estate, and isn't real estate. Personal property includes crops, trees, shrubs, trailers, sheds, cars, mobile homes, manufactured homes that have a Department of Motor Vehicle title rather than a deed, and the contents of a property or building. In a home or business the non-public property includes drapes, lighting fixtures, rugs (not installed carpeting) free-standing cabinets and cupboards, furniture, and most of the contents of closets, drawers and buildings. Buildings with out a foundation, that's sheds which are just supported by blocks are chattel property, that is personal property, and not area of the real estate. Such chattel includes dog houses and particularly the small storage buildings which can be so common outside of homes today.
LANDS: In probably the most general sense, comprehends any ground, soil or earth whatsoever... Black's Law dictionary 6th Ed. (BL6), p.877PRIVATE PROPERTY: As protected from being taken for public uses, is such property as belongs absolutely to an individual, and which he gets the exclusive right of disposition. Property of a particular, fixed and tangible nature, capable to be in possession and transmitted to a different, such as houses, lands, and chattels. BL6, p. 1217. Private property is land, houses, and chattels. Private property is protected from being taken for public uses. Private property is owned absolutely.REAL ESTATE synonymous with real property" and p.1218 REAL PROPERTY ... A broad term for lands, tenements, hereditaments (those things which are hereditary); which on the death of the master intestate, passes to his heir." BL6, p1263