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Legal Description |
A detailed way of describing a parcel of land for ducuments that will be accepted on the court of law. This decription is based on information collected through a survey. |
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Survey |
The process by which boundaries are measured. This includes calculating the dimensions and area to determine the exact location of a peice of land. |
Courts have stated that a decription is leagally sufficient if it allows a surveyor to locate the parcel |
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Three Basic Method used to describe Real Estate |
1. Metes and Bounds 2. Rectangular (government) Survey 3. Lot and Block (recorded plat) |
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System of land description designed by the Federal Bureau of Land Management and the USDA Forest Service |
(NILS) National Integrated Land System |
designed to be compatible with metes-and -bounds description and the rectangular survey system. |
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NILS unified worlds of surveying into the Geographic Information System (GIS) for... |
The management of cadastral (public survey records) and land parcel information |
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Metes-and-bounds |
A surveying method that relies on properties physical features to determine boundaries and measurement. |
Metes-and-bounds references the direction and distance between property lines. |
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POB |
Point of beginning, (also point of ending) is the place a metes and bound description starts. It's marked by a monument. |
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Boundaries in a metes-and-bounds description are recorded referring to.. |
1. Linear measurments, 2. Natural and artificial landmarks (monuments), 3. Directions |
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Monuments |
Fixed objects used to locate.. 1. POB 2. All corners of the parcel or ends of boundaries 3. Location of intersecting boundaries |
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Iron pins or concrete post placed by the Us Corps of Engineers, other government dept, or trained surveyors |
Monuments |
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What takes precedence over any linear measurment in the metes-and-bounds description? |
Distance between monuments |
Location of monuments are more important than distance |
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Because monuments can be moved surveyors give their final metes-and bounds references in terms of... |
Cardinal points and distance |
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Lot and block system |
(Plat Map System) describes land using lot and block numbers reffered to in a plat map. |
2 step survey- 1. Large parcel of land is described by the metes+bounds method or retangular survey 2. Once surveyed, broken into smaller parcels |
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Plat Map |
Map prepared by a licensed surveyor or engineer. Lot sizes must comply with local ordinances and must be filed in the recorder of deeds office in the county if the property. |
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Lot and block refers to... |
Lot - the numerical designation of a any particular parcel if land Block - the name if the subdivision under which the map is recorded |
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Lot and block refers to... |
Lot - the numerical designation of a any particular parcel of land Block - the name of the subdivision under which the map is recorded |
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Three identifiers when describing a lot from a recorded plat map |
1. Lot and block number 2. Name or numbe rif the subdivisiin plat 3. Name of the county and state |
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