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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. The system has been used in England for many centuries, and is still used t...
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METES AND BOUNDS ... Up to the time of the Revolutionary War, or until about the beginning of the nineteenth century, land, when parcelled out, and sold or granted, was described by "Metes and Bounds" and that system is still in existence in the following States, or in those portions of them which h ad been sold or...
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Some land cannot be described briefly. In these cases, a "metes and bounds" description is required. "Metes," meaning measurements, and "bounds," meaning boundaries, are designated for so many units of measurement along a specified boundary line.
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Land in the original thirteen colonies, plus Maine, Vermont, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, West Virginia, and parts of Ohio were surveyed with the Metes and Bounds surveying system.
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Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and; Ellie L. Buckley; September 2006 ... E-journal archiving metes and bounds : a survey of the landscape / by Anne R. Kenney ... [et al.]. p. cm. -- (CLIR publication ; no. 138);
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metes & bounds surveying ... In the Metes and Bounds system, property descriptions can contain several types of information. The type and quality of information has changed over the years, as a reflection of the changes in surveyors' tools and capabilities.
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In the Southern United States in the State-Land states, land is surveyed in the indiscriminate metes and bounds system. This survey system uses natural land features, such as trees and streams, as well as neighboring land owners, along with distances to describe plots of land.
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from Mercer County, Kentucky Deed Book 7, p.417 ... 13 February 1810. Rice BEADLES of Lincoln Co., Ky sells 140 acres and 36 poles of land in Mercer County on Doctors Fork to John CRAIN for 200 pounds. Land bounded as follows...: [Ref. 1] ... [MORE about indiscriminate metes and bounds system of survey ]
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