2021 Colorado Code
Title 38 - Property - Real and Personal
Article 30 - Titles and Interests
§ 38-30-150. Definitions

As used in articles 30 to 44 (except part 2 of article 41) of this title 38 and part 5 of article 10 of title 12, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Deed” includes mortgages, leases, releases, and every conveyance or encumbrance under seal.
2. “Land” and “real estate” shall be construed as coextensive in meaning with the terms “land”, “tenements”, and “hereditaments” and as embracing all mining claims and other claims, and chattels real.

History. Source: R.S. P. 114, § 27. G.L. § 185. G.S. § 225. R.S. 08: § 707. C.L. § 4917. CSA: C. 40, § 45. CRS 53: § 118-1-51. C.R.S. 1963: § 118-1-50. L. 2019: IP amended,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1723, § 232, effective October 1. History. Source: R.S. P. 114, § 27. G.L. § 185. G.S. § 225. R.S. 08: § 707. C.L. § 4917. CSA: C. 40, § 45. CRS 53: § 118-1-51. C.R.S. 1963: § 118-1-50. L. 2019: IP amended,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1723, § 232, effective October 1.

Interests in land, such as chattels real and leases for a term of years, are regarded as real estate instead of personalty. McKee v. Howe, 17 Colo. 538 , 31 P. 115 (1892).

An interest acquired by occupancy of public land is an interest in real estate, may be the subject of conveyance by deed, and carries with it the title to any structure annexed to its soil. Gillett v. Gaffney, 3 Colo. 351 (1877); Sears v. Taylor, 4 Colo. 38 (1877); Roseville Alta Mining Co. v. Iowa Gulch Mining Co., 15 Colo. 29 , 24 P. 920 (1890).

Applied in In re Hellman, 474 F. Supp. 348 (D. Colo. 1979 ).