Crops owned by a tenant that may be harvested after the lease ends are called what?

• A. Appurtenances
• B. Annexation
• C. Emblements
• D. Real Estate

Answer: (C)

Emblements describe crops that a tenant has cultivated on leased land. Even after the lease ends, the tenant retains ownership of those crops because they were produced with the tenant’s labor and capital. The landlord may not claim them as part of the real estate, and the tenant is generally entitled to enter the land to harvest them when the lease terminates, assuming no lease terms say otherwise. This is also known as fructus industriales. Appurtenances are attached rights or features that transfer with the land, annexation is about attaching personal property to real property, and real estate refers to the land and its permanent improvements, not these harvested crops.