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level questions: Legal Descriptions

Question	Answer
a legally valid drawing of the dimensions of a piece of real estate, including its boundaries and the location of improvements	Survey
a legal land description method identifying a piece of real estate’s exact dimensions and location in reference to a fixed and permanent monument	Metes and Bounds
the definite starting point for a metes and bounds description	Point of Beginning
an object used to mark the boundaries of a piece of real estate	Monument
a method to describe land by using principal meridians and base lines; also known as the government survey system	Rectangular Survey System
a way to describe a piece of land by referring to the lot and block numbers in a subdivision that were assigned by the developer	Lot & Block
a map of a subdivision indicating its location and property lines	Plat
units of measurement that run north to south to Earth’s poles	Longitude Lines
units of measurements that run east to west, parallel to the equator	Latitude Lines
a column created by drawing a parallel line every six miles east and west of a principal meridian	Range
lines that intersect with range lines to create 36-square-mile parcels (6 x 6 square miles) called townships	Township Lines
a measure of the surface of land (43,560 square feet)	acre
a square made up of mile-long boundaries (1 square mile) that equates to 640 acres	Section
a base point from which measurement is taken by moving upward or downward, marking standard heights or depths	Datum
airspace above a parcel of land	Air Lot
a map where curved lines (contour lines) connect contiguous points of equal elevation to define the contours of the land, also called a topographic map	Contour Map
the science of determining points and the distances and angles between them, often for the purpose of establishing land maps and boundaries for ownership transfers of real estate	Land Surveying