10 - Legal Descriptions Flashcards
Uses terminal points and angles to describe land
Metes and Bounds
A permanent marker installed on the land by a surveyor.
Monument
uses a recorded map or plat to describe land
Lot and Block
A subdivision map filed in the county recorder’s office that shows the location and boundaries of parcels of land.
Recorded Plat
The Government Survey System is a federal land survey system that has been applied to most of the land added to the United States since the system was adopted in 1785.
Government Survey System
An overlay chessboard pattern on land that where each square has a name.
Grid
north-south lines established at six mile intervals as part of the government survey system.
Range Lines
East/West lines established at six mile intervals as part of the government survey system.
Township Lines
A street Address
Informal Reference
The technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them, commonly practiced by licensed surveyors and members of various building professions.
Land Surverying
Division of property among multiple owners.
Partition
The resulting 36sqmile units of land from range and township lines.
6miles x 6miles, 36sqmiles or 640 acres
Townships
