Unit 5 Key Terms Flashcards
Designated airspace over a piece of land. An ____, like surface property, may be transferred.
Air lots
The main imaginary line running EAST & WEST and crossing a principal meridian at a definite point; used by surveyors for reference in locating and describing land under the rectangle (govern’t) survey system of legal description.
Base lines
Permanent reference marks or points established for use by surveyors in measuring differences in elevation.
Benchmarks
A Horizontal plane from which heights and depths are measured.
Datum
A description of a specific parcel of real estate complete enough for an independent surveyor to locate and identify it.
Legal decription
A method of describing real property that identifies a parcel of land by reference to _____ numbers within a subdivision, as specified on a recorded subdivision plat.
Lot-and-block (recorded plat) method
A method used to describe a parcel of land that begins at a well-marked point and follows the properties boundaries, using directions and distances around the tract, back to the place of beginning.
Metes-and-bounds method
A fixed natural or artificial object used to establish real estate boundaries for a metes-and-bounds description.
Monuments
A map of a town, section, or subdivision indicating the LOCATION and BOUNDARIES of individual properties.
Plat map
In metes-and-bounds legal description, the STARTING POINT of the survey, situated in one corner of the parcel; all metes-and-bounds descriptions must follow the boundaries of the parcel back to the ____________.
Point of beginning (POB)
The main imaginary line running NORTH & SOUTH and crossing a base line at a definite point; used by surveyors for reference in locating and describing land under the rectangle survey system of legal description.
Principal meridians
A system established in 1785 by the federal government, providing for surveying and describing land by reference to principal meridians and base lines.
Rectangular (government) survey system
A portion of township under the rectangle survey system. A township is divided into 36 sections, numbered 1 through 36. _____is a square with mile-long sides and an area of one square mile, or 640 acres.
Sections
The process by which boundaries are measured and land areas are determined; the onsite measurement of lot lines, dimensions, and positions of a house on a lot, including the determination of any existing encroachments or easements.
Survey
Strips of land that are six miles wide, extending EAST & WEST and numbered NORTH & SOUTH according to their distance from the base lines in the rectangular survey system of legal description.
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