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Chapter 8
legal descriptions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| True or false: address (100 Main Street), name (Buckingham Palace), and general description ("the south forty acres"). Such descriptions are informal ways to describe a property. | True (they lack both permanence and sufficient information for a surveyor to locate the property). |
| what is a legal description of real property | one which accurately locates and identifies the boundaries of the subject parcel to a degree acceptable by courts of law in the state where the property is located. |
| True or False: Legal description don't provide accuracy and consistency over time. | False (they do) |
| what are the three accepted methods of legally describing parcels of real estate? | metes and bounds rectangular survey system/ government survey method recorded plat method/ lot and block method |
| what is the oldest type of accepted method of legal description? | metes and bounds |
| what is the metes and bounds description? | identifies the boundaries of a parcel of real estate using reference points, distances, and angles. The description always identifies an enclosed area by starting at an origination point, called point of beginning. (kind of inaccurate) |
| True or False about metes and bounds:A metes and bounds description does not have to return to the POB in order to be valid. | False |
| what does the term meets refer to? | distance and direction |
| what does the term bounds refer to? | fixed reference points, or monuments and landmarks |
| why was the rectangular survey system developed? | to simplify and standardize property descriptions as a replacement for the often inaccurate metes and bounds method. |
| The rectangular survey system works well for describing properties that are _________or__________in shape. | square or rectangular |
| for an irregular shape, such as a triangle, the rectangular system is inadequate as a method of legal description. The full description has to include a _____________description. | metes and bounds (or lot and block). |
| what is the meridian in a rectangular survey system? | the north-south, longitudinal lines on the survey grid ( I ) |
| what is the principal meridian? | the single designated meridian for identifying townships in the principal meridian's geographical "jurisdiction." (37 in the national survey). |
| what is a parallel in a rectangular survey system? | The east-west, latitudinal lines (-----) |
| what is a base parallel? | he designated line for identifying townships. There is a base parallel for each principal meridian |
| what is a range in a rectangular survey system? | The north-south area between consecutive meridians ( I ) |
| what is a tier in a rectangular survey system? | The east-west area between two parallels (-----) (also known as a township strip) |
| what is a township in a rectangular survey system? | the area enclosed by the intersection of two consecutive meridians and two consecutive parallels |
| How far apart are parallels and meridians? | 6 miles |
| how many sections are in a township? And what way do you count them? | 36, starts at the northeastern corner proceeding to west. [6 l 5 l 4 l 3 l 2 l 1 l ] |
| how many acres are in 1 square mile of a section? | 1 section (1 mile for all sides) area= 1 square mile 640 acres |
| how many square feet are in 1 acre? | 43,560 square feet |
| a section can be divided into ____. | fractions ex: 1/2 section 320 aces, 1/4 section 160 acres. |
| how do you convert fractions of a section into acres? | multiply the denominator of the fraction together then divide by 640. ex: 1/2 and 1/4 of a section= 640/ (2 x 4)= 80 acres |
| what is the record plat method/ lot and block system? | used to describe properties in residential, commercial, and industrial subdivisions. Tracts of land are subdivided into lots. In a large subdivision, lots may be grouped together into blocks for ease of reference. |
| what is a plat survey/ subdivision plat map? | entire subdivision is surveyed to specify the size and location of each lot and block. The surveyor then incorporates the survey data into a plat survey. |
| what do subdivision plat maps include? | The recorded lot and block numbers of a subdivision parcel, along with its section, township and meridian reference, become the property's legal description |
| The description of a recorded plat property first presents the property's ____ number or letter, then the ____ identifier and the subdivision name. Next describe the subdivision's location within a section, a township, a county, and a state. | Lot; Block ex:"Lot 7, Block 8 of the Grand Oaks Subdivision of the SE 1/4 of Section 35, Township T28S, R19E of the Tallahassee Principal Meridian in Pinellas County, Florida." |
| what is a datum? | elevation reference points that describes the height or depth of a property. |
| air rights and subsurface rights are measure_____ datum | below |
| what is a benchmark? | because surveyors can not rely on a single datum they have identified local elevation markers called benchmarks. Which provide reference elevations for nearby properties. |
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