Metes and Bounds
Metes, in metes and bounds.
What are measurements?
A form of ambiguity that is obvious.
What is patent ambiguity?
Defines the general area where the description is located.
What is the caption?
The most important consideration when interpreting a description.
What is intent?
This many square feet comprise one acre.
What is 43,560?
Bounds, in metes and bounds.
When something is radial.
What is leading towards the center of a circle or arc?
The bulk of the description.
What is the body?
The title of a document prepared by a surveyor to describe boundaries of real property.
What is a land description?
Word that follows "parallel" in a metes and bounds description.
What is "with"?
The extension of a line or curve in both directions that continues forever.
What is a prolongation?
Ownership
What is title?
Type of clause that takes away from the body.
What are qualifying clauses?
When the description contains factual or mathematical errors that obscure the intent.
What is ambiguity?
Types of directions that are capitalized within a description.
What are cardinal directions?
(North, South, East, West)
Special type of metes and bounds with a defined width.
What is a strip description?
When two circles or arcs share a center point.
What is concentric?
Mentions of articles that lie outside of the description itself.
Also accepted: attachments, exhibits.
Format that defines the described area relative to the parent parcel's dimension in a way that is variable.
What are word transformations?
Used to refer to the last instance of a specific element.
What is "said"?
Used when a description originates at a point not lying on the boundary of the area to be described.
What is a point of commencement?
A type of interest in real property that is revocable.
What is a license?
Together with...
What is an augmenting clause?
This is not required for a deed to be valid.
What is recordation?
What is filed?