The sections of each municipality are numbered consecutively, starting with number 1 in the northeast corner of the municipality, and counting from right to left, then from left to right, and so on, meandering back and forth through the sections of the municipality, and ending with number 36 in the southeast corner. It`s not always accurate either. Metes and limits are not always an accurate measurement, but also many blocks can be here and there a few meters away. You may be wondering how this could have happened. This is often a coincidence. A homeowner builds a garage on a line they think is the property line, but is actually two feet away, and that can push a neighbor`s property line by two feet. For this reason, some securities companies are still conducting an investigation, even if the legal description is a lot and a block. To ensure you own a property, it`s a good idea to purchase title insurance that protects against human error that could compromise your property. The townships run from north to south, and the course lines run from east to west.

The township and course system was adopted in government surveys in 1785 and has been used ever since. In a legal description, one would refer to the starting point, also known as POB, or the “starting point”. For example, you could start at the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 32, T1N, and walk a certain number of feet to a certain degree. The legal description would continue to take you to a variety of different degrees and angles until you reconnect the line to the starting point and draw an accurate map of your property boundaries. All countries in Washington and Oregon are measured using the Willamette meridian. You must include it in your legal description. The legal description of a property can be found on the deed. You can usually find a certificate in your area on a local authority`s website. Be sure to check the latest certificate for the most accurate information. For example, each community is six square miles, or 23,040 acres, and contains 36 square sections, each said to be one square mile (or 640 acres). A reporter allows you to draw your own legal description of the property, so the title finders had to extract the Metes and Bounds descriptions from the courthouse and the fellow`s book entries. The title search used this method to determine whether a document affected the property sought in the public record.

Today, most of this is done by computer. A legal description is the method of locating or describing land in relation to the public survey system introduced by law in 1785 in accordance with the Articles of Confederation. A more common legal description is that of limits and limits. It is a centuries-old public surveying system. With this method, cantons and rangelands are divided into sections of 640 hectares each. The legal description indicates the location of a particular property in its respective municipality, zone and section. Sometimes you can find your own corner marks in the ground, but that`s more on a plot with an area and description of meters and boundaries than with a lot and block. In this example, you would write the legal description of the part with the “X” as follows: NE1/4SW1/4, Sec.12, T27N R32E WM or WM, T 27N, R 32E, Section 12, NE1/4 SW1/4 Some legal descriptions are very simple and involve a lot and a block in a subdivision name, but even these peculiarities can be wrong, when checked by surveying equipment. The land is divided into areas called townships.

The townships are mostly 36 square miles or 6 square miles. Each municipality is divided into 36 sections; Each section is usually 640 hectares. In Oregon and Washington, the rectangular survey system for the township and range is referenced to the north-south meridian of Willamette and the east-west baseline of Willamette. The lines intersect on Willamette Stone in the western hills of Portland, Oregon. The townships (typically 6 miles by 6 miles) are numbered, beginning with Township 1 North (the baseline) to the Canadian border and Township 1 South to the California border. The ranges are numbered west from the meridian to the Pacific Ocean and east to the Idaho border. The normal cantons are divided into 36 sections and further on into lots and aliquots. The full legal land description for a 160-acre property in eastern Oregon would be: SE1/4 of Section 14 in Township 14 South, Range 34 East, Meridian Willamette. A legal property description is a way to define or locate the location of a particular parcel of land.

A mailing address also identifies a physical location, but not in the same way that a legal description defines it. In fact, sometimes they don`t even go together. The Public Survey System (PLSS) is used in legal descriptions. It uses a grid system based on municipality, zone and section numbers. Here is an example of a legal description of PLSS: This system can be thought of as a large square grid. For reference, each section is 640 hectares. A half-section is 320 hectares. A quarter section is 160 hectares. Half of a quarter section is 80 hectares. A quarter section is 40 hectares.

If you are writing a legal description, you can start with the municipality and the beach, or with the description of the section. No matter how you start, when writing the section description, always start with the smallest piece of land and move on to the larger piece. If we were to designate a particular parcel of land that has been divided equally, an area of 20 hectares could be called the southern half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 32, T1N. It would be a very easy terrain to find on a map. Things get complicated when boundaries and boundaries are needed to explain location. The exact method of changing the legal description of a property varies depending on the type of property and where you live, but it should be a fairly simple process. Legal descriptions change frequently, especially as more accurate GPS tools highlight errors in the original description of properties. Contact your city or county authorities to learn more about the process in your area.