Property Description Flashcards
Legal Description
Describe the land but not the improvements that are appurtenant and run with the land
Street addresses are not sufficient
Informal description of Referance
street address of property
Metes and Bounds
Legal description of a parcel of land that begins at a well marked point and follows the boundaries, using directions (bounds) and distances (metes) around the tract, back to the POB
Call
In surveying, a reference to course, distance or monument when describing a boundary
Each calls begins with North or South, then number of degrees East or West
POB
Point of beginning
Monuments
fixed objects used to establish real estate boundaries
Ex: Stones, lakes, trees, streets, highways, and markers placed by surveyor
Rectangular (Government) Survey System
NOT USED IN NC
1785
providing for surveying and describing land by reference to principal meridians and base lines; used mainly west of Mississippi River
Principal Meridians
Run North and South (37 in US)
Base Lines
Run East and West
Ranges
Land on either side of principal meridian that is divided into six-mile-wide strips by lines that run parallel to the meridian
Township Lines
Lines running East and West parallel to base line and 6 miles apart
Township Tiers
Strips of land formed from township lines
Townships
6 miles square and contain 36 square miles (23,040 acres) each square is called a section, each square is 640 acres
Township Description includes…
- Designation of the township tier in which township is located
- Designation of the range strip
- Name or number of the principal meridian used for that area
Reference to a recorded plat
System that uses lot and block numbers
