Legal Description Of Land - Unit 5

Question 1

What are the 3 methods of land description?

Answer 1

Meters and bounds
Rectangular government survey system=rectangular survey system
Lot and block system

Question 2

What is the metes and bounds method?

Answer 2

Legal description of land “from the _______ to the ______.”

Point of beginning to point of end.
Measures the perimeter of the property

Metes-measures distance
Bounds-follows compass direction or angles (degrees, feet, minutes, seconds)

Question 3

What is point of beginning?

Answer 3

Starting point of describing a parcel of land, it’s also the ending point.

Question 4

What are monuments?

Answer 4

Natural and artificial landmarks

Question 5

What is the rectangular survey system?

Answer 5

A method of land description using giant boxes

640 acres

Question 6

What are baselines?

Answer 6

Run east to west in rectangular survey system (umpire)

Question 7

What are principal meridians?

Answer 7

Run north to south in rectangular survey system

Question 8

What is a township line?

Answer 8

A smaller east to west group in the rectangular survey system

Question 9

What is a range line?

Answer 9

A smaller north to south measurement in the rectangular survey system

Question 10

What are township squares?

Answer 10

Basic unit of measurement in rectangular survey system.
Where township lines and range lines intersect you for giant squares 6 miles up and 6 miles across
Total of 36 square miles.

Question 11

What is a section?

Answer 11

What township squares are subdivided into. They are 36 sections.
Each section is 1 square miles or 640 acres.

Question 12

What are correction lines?

Answer 12

Range lines are parallel only in theory. Correction lines exist to make up for the inconsistency of lines not running perfectly around the earth.

Question 13

What are fractional sections?

Answer 13

Undersized or oversized sections. They might not be perfect

Question 14

What is the lot and block method?

Answer 14

And method of land description using a plat map or survey of property. It starts with the preparation of a survey.

Key words: plat map, lot, block

This system uses lot and block numbers referred to in a plot map.

A licensed surveyed or engineer divides the land into numbered or lettered lots and blocks, streets and access roads for public use are also indicated.

Question 15

How do you measure elevation?

Answer 15

Datum

Question 16

What are air lots?

Answer 16

Where the air above an owners property is divided into lots

Question 17

What is datum?

Answer 17

Point, line, or surface from which elevations are measured defined from the mean sea level of the New York harbor.

Question 18

What are benchmarks?

Answer 18

Per me any reference points that have been established throughout the US. Usually are embossed brass markers set in concrete. Their principle reference use is for marking datums to establish elevation.

Question 19

How many square feet in an acre?

Think an acre is a 7-11 gas station

Answer 19

43,560 square feet

Question 20

How many feet in a linear mile?

Think a mile is a fast car “5 to 80”

Answer 20

5,280 feet

Question 21

What is the reserved section for schools in a rectangular survey system?

Answer 21

16

Question 22

What are tiers?

Answer 22

Strips of land that are 6 miles wide and numbered from the baseline