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Legal Description Comprehension

Explore the types of descriptions in land surveying, like platted description and metes and bounds, and learn how to convert distances and understand angles. Dive into the elements of a curve, such as radius length and chord distance.

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Legal Description Comprehension

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  1. Topics in Land Surveying: Legal Description Comprehension TREC #7223 Tim Howell, RLSTREC Instructor #1556

  2. Types of Descriptions Platted Description Metes and Bounds A complete perimeter description where as each course is described in sequence in a constant direction with adequate information to recreate it on the ground. A platted description is similar to the following: “…all of Lot No. 421, Block 44…as shown by map of record in Plat Book 1, page 23, in the Register’s Office for Roane County, Tennessee…”

  3. Converting Distances

  4. Understanding Angles N 0° N18°16’22”W W 90° E 90° S18°16’22”E 0° S

  5. Elements of a curve Radius Length (arc length) Tangent Delta (Δ) Chord Distance Chord Bearing

  6. Curves

  7. Slope

  8. Hierarchy of Evidence

  9. Elements of a good description

  10. Examples…

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