Ch 6 Land Descriptions Flashcards
Legal Description
Is a description of a particular piece of property
Methods of description :
- Monuments
- Government Survey
Lot, Block & Subdivision - Vertical and description
- Reference to other recorded documents
Monuments
Naturally occurring physical features of the land only to determine the boundaries of a parcel of real property in order to legally describe it
Metes and Bounds
Describe property by specifying its shape and dimensions.
Surveyor
Uses both precision instruments a known natural and artificial bounds to measure the exact angles and distances in order to establish the boundaries of a piece of real property.
Government Survey
1785 Federal government adopted the Government
- called the Godetic or rectangular system
Check
A 24 square formed by intersecting meridians and base lines
Standard Parallels
E TO W lines = base lines
Guide Meridians
N to S lines
Township
6 miles, 36 square miles
Township lines
E to W lines in a township
Range Lines
N to S lines in a township
Section
Square mile within a township (640 acres)
- 36 sections within a township
-smallest subdivision
Survey Monument
A maker located at each section corner
Checks
From the prime meridian and the base line, other lines are laid out at 24 mile intervals
- 24 miles square and contains 16 townships
