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| What is the purpose of the description of land? |
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| fix the boundaries of the land intended to be sold, mortgaged, or leased |
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- Identifies boundaries
- Encroachemnts
- Subsurface Problems
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| What are the most exacting and universally accepted standards in surveying? |
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- American Land Title Association(ALTA)
- American Congress on Surveying and Mapping(ACSM)
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| Standards for a survey... |
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- Convinient Scale
- North Orientation and Arrow
- Point of Beginning
- Boundaries read in clockwise direction
- Distance between corners and nearest right of way
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| metes-and-bounds description |
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| the surveyor takes the reader by hand, as it were, leading the reader around the land...Starts at a well marked point of beginning and follows the land until it comes back to this point |
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| Start with a substantial landmark, mouth of a river...then a line is run due northto the margin surveyed, this is the prime meridian(prime)...an east and west base line is run intersecting at some prominent point..parrellel lines every 24 yards |
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| In the Government Survey Method, the tracts are 24 by 24 and then divided into parts 6 by 6..what are these smaller parts called? |
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| each row, or tier, of townships running north and south |
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| T.40 N. R.13 E of the 3d P.M. |
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Township 40 North, Range 13, East of the Third Principal Meridian
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40th row north of the base line and in the 13th row east of the 3rd Prinicpal Meridian |
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| How manytracts is a township divided into and what are they called? |
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| 36..each 1 square mile called sections |
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| How are the sections arranged? |
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6 5 4 3 2 1
7 8 9 10 11 12
18 17 16 15 14 13
19 20 21 22 23 24
30 29 28 27 26 25
31 32 33 34 35 36
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| Reformation of an instrument |
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| a court order to correct erroneous description of land |
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