Legal Descriptions Flashcards
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Metes and Bounds Method
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- Describes perimeter by landmarks, monuments, distances, angles
- Usable within rectangular survey system
- Starting at point of beginning (POB), follow perimeter, return to POB
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Lots and Block System
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- Used to describe properties in residential, commercial, industrial subdivisions
- Tracts of land divided into lots, then grouped into blocks
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Rectangular Survey System
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- Simplify and standardize property descriptions
- All land in system surveyed using longitude and latitude lines
- Lines created uniform grids of squares called townships
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Rectangular Survey System | Meridians
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North-south lines six miles apart
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Rectangular Survey System | Parallels
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east-west lines six miles apart
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Rectangular Survey System | Range
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north-south strip between meridians
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Rectangular Survey System | Tier
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East-west strip of area between parallels; also called township strip
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Rectangular Survey System | Township
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the six-mile by six-mile square at the intersection of a range and a tier
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Rectangular Survey System | Section of a Township
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1 section = 640 acres; 36 sections per township
