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16 Cards in this Set
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What does locate mean to a surveyor?
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Can define the exact boundaries of the property.
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What is a legal description of land?
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A precise, legally acceptable way of identifying a parcel of land so that its location may be known with certainty.
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What method does PA use to describe real estate?
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Metes and bounds (oldest type of legal description) and lots and blocks.
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What is metes-and-bounds?
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A description that locates property boundaries by referencing the direction and distance of the property lines.
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What is Point of Beginning (POB)?
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The designated place on the parcel that then proceeds around the boundaries.
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Where does the metes-and-bounds description always end at?
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The point of beginning (POB)
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What are monuments?
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Fixed objects used to locate the POB, the end of boundary segments. Typically natural objects or manmade markers placed by surveyors.
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What is a Lot and Block?
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Also referred as Recorded Plat System uses lot and block numbers referred to in a plat map filed in the records of deeds office.
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What is Rectangular Survey System?
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Sometimes called the government Survey Method, est. in 1785 to provide a standard method of describing all land conveyed to or acquired by the federal government.
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Principal Meridians:
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North & South lines
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Base Lines:
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East and West lines. (referenced by degrees of longitude and latitude)
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Townships
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Imaginary squares
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Sections
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divisions of townships (sections within a twp is one mile square of 640 acres). There are 36 sections in a township.
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What is Air Lots
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A subdivision of air above the land
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Datum
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A point, line or surface from which elevations are measured or indicated
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Benchmarks
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Permanent Reference points established throughout US
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