Legal Descriptions

Legal Descriptions identify a property in a way that the property could never be mistaken for any other parcel.

( Things to remember for the test )

Metes and Bounds 

• Most Authoritative 
• Most difficult to prepare
• Most difficult to interpret

A metes and Bounds description MUST have a definite point of beginning.   

Rectangular Survey ( Government Survey )

• Faster and Simpler
• Uses Imaginary Lines
• Baselines and principal meridians

Recorded plat ( Short Form )

• Subdivision blocks and lots