Chapter 9: Legal Descriptions

Question 1

The process by which boundaries are measured by calculating the dimensions and area to determine the exact location of a piece of land

Answer 1

Survey

Question 2

What are the three basic methods that can be used to describe real estate

Answer 2

Metes and bounds.
Rectangular survey.
Lot and block

Question 3

The oldest type of legal description. A properties physical features to determine the boundaries the measurements of the parcel

Answer 3

Metes-and-bounds method

Question 4

This description always starts at a designated place on the parcel

Answer 4

Point of beginning

Question 5

Fixed objects used to identify the point of beginning, the ends of the boundary segment, or the location of intersecting boundaries

Answer 5

Monuments

Question 6

Sometimes called the government survey system was established by Congress in 1785 to standardize the description of land acquired by the newly formed federal government. The system is based on two sets of intersecting lines principal meridians and base lines

Answer 6

Rectangular survey system

Question 7

What runs north and south

Answer 7

Principal meridians

Question 8

What runs east and west

Answer 8

Baseline

Question 9

Lines running east and west, parallel to the baseline and 6 miles apart,

Answer 9

Township lines

Question 10

What does each township contain

Answer 10

36 sections. Each section is one square mile, or 640 acres

Question 11

What should legal descriptions always include

Answer 11

The name of the county and state in which the land is located because meridians often relate to more than one state and occasionally related to two base lines

Question 12

When surveying land, a surveyor refers to the principal meridian that is?

Answer 12

Within the rectangular survey system area in which the land being surveyed is located

Question 13

And describing real estate, the system that uses feet, degrees, and natural and artificial markers as a monument is?

Answer 13

Metes and bounds

Question 14

A buyer purchased a 1 acre parcel for $2.15 per square foot. What is the selling price of the parcel

Answer 14

$93,645

Question 15

The legal description of the northwest 1/4of the southwest 1/4 of section 6, Township 4 N., Range 7 W. is defective because there is no reference to?

Answer 15

Principal meridian

Question 16

To keep the principal Meridian and range lines is near to 6 miles apart as possible, a correction known as a government check is made. How large is the government check?

Answer 16

20 square miles

Question 17

Fractional section from the rectangular survey system along the northern and western borders of the check that are less than a quarter section and area are known as?

Answer 17

Government lots

Question 18

Buyer A purchased 4.5 acres of land for $78,400. And adjoining owner wants to purchase a strip of A’s land measuring 150 feet by hundred feet. What should the strip cost the adjoining owner if a sells it for the same price per square-foot originally paid for the property?

Answer 18

$6000

Question 19

A property contains 10 acres. How many lots of not less than 50 feet by hundred feet can be subdivided from the property of 26,000 ft.² were dedicated to roads?

Answer 19

81

Question 20

A parcel of land is 400’ x 640’. The parcel cut in half diagonally by a stream. How many acres are there in each half the parcel

Answer 20

2.94

Question 21

A detailed way of describing a parcel of land for document such as deeds and mortgages that will be excepted in a court of law

Answer 21

Legal description