The combined environmental or social impacts that accrue over time and space from a series of similar or related individual actions, contaminants, or projects. Although each action may seem to have a negligible impact, the combined effects can be severe.

Payments by federal government to producers of agricultural products for the purpose of stabilizing food prices, ensuring plentiful food production, guaranteeing farmers’ basic incomes, and generally strengthening the agricultural segment of the national economy.

Written documents describing the limits and requirements for the use of real property in subdivisions imposed by original developers and enforced by homeowners’ associations. Legally they are called equitable servitudes, because each parcel agrees to serve the others by obeying the limits and requirements for use, and equitable, because they are to be enforced fairly…

A formal agreement or contract between two parties where one gives the other certain promises and assurances, such as covenants of warranty in a warranty deed.

Distinct legal entity separate from its shareholders with a perpetual life; can hold property in its name; provides its shareholders with limited liability (i.e., limited to their investment in the corporation), so long as the shareholders do not commingle corporate and personal funds and continue to treat the corporation as a distinct legal entity. Primary…

Memorializes the parties’ understanding of their agreement and provides a due diligence period during which the buyer shall confirm his or her perceptions about a property. At a minimum, a contract describes the property, names of buyer and seller, purchase price, manner of payment, and time and place of closing.

Same as “agreement,” but usually more formal.

A covenant binding a parcel of land in ways that preserve a native plant or animal, a natural or physical feature of the land, or some aspect of the land that has historic, cultural, or scientific significance. The easement is a recorded, perpetual, individually tailored agreement creating a nonpossessory interest in real property, the interest…

Provides that the landlord must consent to a reasonable request by a tenant. If the landlord withholds consent unreasonably, tenant may seek an injunction but not damages.

When two or more water sources are to be administered as a single water system, diversion pursuant to a junior rights from one water source shall be regulated as provided by these rules to provide water to senior rights from the other water source.