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- I am EXAMPLE3.TXT
-
- This example is an actual land description of a parcel of land in Wayne County,
- Kentucky.
-
- FIRST TRACT: BEGINNING at a beech old survey and running with the old lines N
- 32 W 15 poles and 9 links to a maple; thence N 46-3/4 W 19-3/4 poles to two
- small chestnut oaks on the old line; thence N 19 W 25 poles and 7 links to a
- hickory: thence E 37 poles to a hickory and maple; thence S 15 E 11½ poles to a
- white oak and maple, corner to the old T.A. survey; thence with the said old
- line S 10 E 17 poles and 5 links to an ash on the old line; thence with a new
- line S 58½ W 16 poles and 12 links to a dogwood on the bank; thence S 30 W 49
- poles and 5 links to the place of beginning.
-
- This is EXAMPL3A.CAV You will notice that the survey crosses itself. Think
- about what it means to have a survey cross itself as this one does.
-
- SECOND TRACT: BEGINNING on a hickory, M.A.'s corner, and running thence with a
- conditional line made by H.J.T. and E.E.C. N 37½ E 40 poles to a white oak
- and black oak on J.M.D.'s line; thence with his line S 65 E 52 poles to a
- chestnut; thence with the A. line S 76 W 8 poles to a stone where a poplar
- formerly stood; thence S 59 W 22 poles to a white oak and maple; thence N 15 W
- 11 poles to a hickory and maple; thence S 89 W 37 poles to the beginning. This
- is EXAMPL3B.CAV
-
- There is almost surely a typograhpic blunder in this description. If I were
- interested in this property, I would trace the deeds back at the courthouse.
- Note that a title search is similar, but a lawyer only examines the validity of
- the title to the property. A title search does not examine land description
- nor the location of the property. This is land surveying, and is the job of
- the professional surveyor.
-
- These two tracts are supposed to total 40 acres, more or less. That's what the
- deed says, and it must be right because some lawyer's secretary typed it that
- way.
-
- For a description of what is actually on the ground, see "EXAMPLE4".