Chapter 3 - Surveys and Land Desciptions Flashcards
Legal description
Description of real property by a government survey, metes and bounds, or lot numbers of a recorded plat, which description is complete enough that a particular parcel of land can be located and identified.
Survey
Visual presentation of the physical boundaries of real property. Used to describe real property.
As-Built survey
Survey that locates all physical improvements on the land in relation to the boundary lines of the land.
Title insurance
Contract to indemnify the insured against loss through defects in the title to real property.
Title insurance commitment
A commitment or a contract by a title insurance company to issue a title insurance policy.
Easement
Right granted to a nonowner of real property to use the real property for a specific purpose.
Principal meridians
Imaginary north and south lines used in a government survey system. These intersect the base lines to form a starting point for the measurement of land under that system.
Base line
Imaginary east-west survey line used in the government survey system to establish township lines.
Township lines
Lines in a government rectangular survey system that run east and west at 6-mile intervals parallel with base lines and that form strips of land or tiers called townships.
Range lines
Division of a state in a government survey system being a 6-mile-wide row of townships running north and south.
Township
In a government survey, it is a square tract of land 6 miles on each side, containing 36 square miles.
Section
Division or parcel of land on a government survey comprising 1 square mile, or 640 acres.
Plat
Survey of real property that often is recorded.
Course
In a metes and bounds legal description, it is the direction of a property boundary line.
Distance
In a metes and bounds legal description, it is the length of a property boundary line, usually measured in feet and hundredths of a foot.
