Legal Descriptions

Question 1

Define Legal Descriptions

Answer 1

Sufficiently specific enough for a surveyor to locate the exact dimensions of a particular property.

Question 2

What are Metes and bounds?

Answer 2

it is the oldest method of legal description and the most accurate when used with current GPS system technology.

Question 3

How do you use Metes and Bounds?

Answer 3

Uses compass directions and distances (metes) to describe the perimeter of a property’s boundaries (bounds). It starts and ends at a point of beginning using monuments.

Question 4

What is a Recorded Plat?

Answer 4

also known as lot, block, and subdivision, is used in urban residential areas to describe property in a subdivision.

Question 5

How do you use a Recorded Plat?

Answer 5

it divides a large parcel of land into blocks and lots on a plat map, which is filed in the public records of the county where the property is located.

Question 6

What is government survey?

Answer 6

also known as rectangular survey it divides land into squares and rectangles

Question 7

How do you use government survey?

Answer 7

it is measured from the intersections of principal meridians (north and south lines) and base lines (east and west lines)

Question 8

Townships are …

Answer 8

6 miles by 6 miles and they contain 36 square miles each of which is called a section. Each section has 640 acres.