I noticed a long time ago that the lawyers around here are fond of inserting a plethora of filler words into deeds. Used properly they are great but when used with nearly every call they tend to loose their meaning. I was always taught and have practiced that a proper description is best when it is concise and clear with any unnecessary verbiage to clutter the intent or confuse the reader but to that I am of the opinion that most of the attorneys who prepare deeds around here like to insert words that confuse the reader and muck up the entire thing.?ÿ
Oh....and true point of beginning and giving a back bearing and distance to the point of beginning and beginning on the true point of beginning and other such nonsense.?ÿ
I have always been fond of and insistent upon the use of simple English for my property descriptions.
Double negatives are fighting words that I have come to simply ignore the person using them.
Many times on the stand I have looked at the presiding Judge after he insisted that I answer the question and all I could do is throw my hands into the air and say that I don't know what the lawyer is saying, much less if there was a direct question.
It is like, wow dude, you can really ramble on about stuff all day long, the?ÿ problem is that nobody outside of your legal circle knows what you are talking about.
Quoting the facts is simple and does not have to be that complicated.
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I scrolled this here thread in the direction of up a distance of several inches
Edit: I was always taught and have practiced that a proper description is best when it is concise and clear without any unnecessary verbiage to clutter the intent
Typing on a tablet has its pitfalls.
Some of the best boundary descriptions I've read were the original descriptions of Headright Surveys and beginning after Texas became a state.
They did not use any more paper than was necessary.
