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2. Metes and bounds - Wikipedia

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   Metes and bounds is a system or method of describing land, real property (in contrast to personal property) or real estate. [1] The system has been used in England for many centuries and is still used there in the definition of general boundaries.

3. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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   The metes and bounds system was used to describe a town of a generally rectangular shape, 4 to 6 miles (6.4 to 9.7 km) on a side. Within this boundary, a map or plat was maintained that showed all the individual lots or properties. There are some difficulties with this system: Irregular shapes for properties make for much more complex descriptions.

4. Boundary (real estate) - Wikipedia

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   A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line, lot line or bounds). The boundary (in Latin: limes ) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a wall, or similar, but essentially, a legal boundary is a conceptual entity, a social construct ...

5. Cadastre - Wikipedia

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   A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map . In most countries, legal systems have developed around the original administrative systems and use the cadastre to define the dimensions and location of ...

6. Cadastral surveying - Wikipedia

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   Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties.

7. Real property - Wikipedia

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   Metes. The term "metes" refers to a boundary defined by the measurement of each straight run, specified by a distance between the terminal points, and orientation or direction. A direction may be a simple compass bearing (magnetic), or a more precise orientation determined by accurate survey methods. Bounds.