LEADER 05518nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910139611503321 005 20230725050840.0 010 $a1-118-08468-3 010 $a1-283-25779-3 010 $a9786613257796 010 $a1-118-08584-1 010 $a1-118-08466-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000043486 035 $a(EBL)697525 035 $a(OCoLC)816862077 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000544631 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11353738 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544631 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553519 035 $a(PQKB)11290724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC697525 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000043486 100 $a20110328d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProfessional surveyors and real property descriptions$b[electronic resource] $ecomposition, construction, and comprehension /$fStephen V. Estopinal, Wendy Lathrop 210 $aHoboken, N.J. $cWiley$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-470-54259-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS ANDREAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTIONS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Property; 1.1.1 Personal Property; 1.1.2 Real Property; 1.1.3 Ownership; 1.1.4 Possession; 1.2 Title and Interests in Real Property; 1.2.1 The Concept of Title; 1.2.2 Fee Simple; 1.2.3 Limited Title; 1.2.4 Easements; 1.3 Transfers of Title and Interests; 1.3.1 Written Transfers and Conveyances; 1.3.2 Unwritten Transfers and Conveyances; 1.3.3 Statute of Frauds; 1.4 Deeds; 1.4.1 Legally Sufficient; 1.4.2 Abstract of Title; 1.4.3 Recordation; 2 LAND RECORD SYSTEMS; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Metes and Bounds 327 $a2.2.1 General History2.2.2 Legally Sufficient; 2.3 United States Public Lands System; 2.3.1 History; 2.3.2 Aliquot Division; 2.4 Platted Subdivisions; 2.4.1 History; 2.4.2 Recorded Plats; 2.4.3 State and Local Regulations; 2.4.4 Federal, State, and Local Government Maps; 2.4.5 Linear Tracts; 2.5 Combined Record System Descriptions; 3 DIRECTIONS; 3.1 Angles; 3.1.1 General; 3.1.2 Interior Angles; 3.1.3 Exterior Angles; 3.1.4 Deflection Angles; 3.2 Meridians; 3.2.1 General; 3.2.2 True North; 3.2.3 Astronomic North; 3.2.4 Magnetic North; 3.2.5 State Plane North; 3.2.6 Assumed North; 3.3 Bearings 327 $a3.3.1 North-South Reference Lines3.3.2 East-West Reference Lines; 3.3.3 Reversing Directions; 3.3.4 Generalized Directions; 3.4 Curved Lines; 3.5 Azimuths; 3.6 Compass Directions and Headings; 4 MAP PROJECTIONS; 4.1 General; 4.2 Projectionless Maps; 4.2.1 Government Land Office (GLO) Plats; 4.3 Conformal Plane Projection; 4.3.1 Tangent Plane Projection; 4.3.2 Lambert Projection; 4.3.3 Transverse Mercator Projection; 4.3.4 State Plane Projection; 4.3.5 Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM); 4.3.6 Global Positioning System (GPS); 4.3.7 Geographical Information Systems (GIS); 4.4 Application 327 $a5 PLATTING TO DESCRIBE5.1 General; 5.2 Original Surveys; 5.2.1 Identifying the Bounding Parcels; 5.2.2 Monumentation; 5.2.3 Directions; 5.2.4 Distances; 5.3 Retracement Surveys; 5.3.1 Hierarchy of Calls; 5.3.2 Identification of Lines; 5.3.3 Area and Significant Figures; 5.3.4 Recovery of Monumentation; 5.3.5 Perpetuation of Monumentation; 5.4 Preserving the Evidence in Words: A Case Study; 5.5 Reference to Plats in Descriptions; 6 COMPOSING, COMPREHENDING DESCRIPTIONS; 6.1 General; 6.2 Hierarchy of Calls; 6.2.1 Elements of the Boundaries; 6.3 Caption; 6.3.1 Land Record System 327 $a6.3.2 Clarify Intent6.4 Body; 6.4.1 Point of Commencement; 6.4.2 Point of Beginning; 6.4.3 Elements of the Boundaries; 6.5 Elements of the Description; 6.5.1 Qualifications (Additions, Subtractions, Reservations); 6.5.2 Closing and References; 6.6 Punctuation and Language; 6.6.1 Key Words or Phrases; 6.6.2 Construing Ambiguous Deeds; 6.7 Deed Discrepancies-Conflicts; 7 ALTA/ACSM SURVEYS; 7.1 Land Title Insurance; 7.1.1 Why a Survey Matters; 7.2 ALTA/ACSM Survey Standards; 7.3 Mandatory Requirements for ALTA Surveys; 7.4 Accuracy Standards; 7.5 Informational Options 327 $a7.6 The Description for an ALTA/ACSM Survey 330 $a"Land boundaries are the physical, technical, and legal entities that define the extent and limits of a particular parcel of land, whether a small acreage of private property or the delineation between sovereign nations. This book is intended to be a tutorial on writing land descriptions for surveyors, allowing readers to be able to construct complete and modern land descriptions. Providing not only information on how to write new descriptions, this book also covers the history of how historic descriptions were written, enabling the reader to properly interpret them today"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aSurveying 606 $aSurveys$xPlotting 606 $aReal property 606 $aMap reading 615 0$aSurveying. 615 0$aSurveys$xPlotting. 615 0$aReal property. 615 0$aMap reading. 676 $a526.9 686 $aTEC054000$2bisacsh 700 $aEstopinal$b Stephen V$g(Stephen Vincent)$0867332 701 $aLathrop$b Wendy$0867333 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139611503321 996 $aProfessional surveyors and real property descriptions$91936020 997 $aUNINA