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DEdwards1785

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Greetings all. Old surveyor (aren't most of us?) here with something I have not seen before in the last 40 years of surveying. Legal description has a distance of 6.97 3/4 Chains and 7.71/4/100 Chains. What the Hell does that mean? I thought I knew all the various ways attorneys had of torturing the verbage and dimensions in a legal description, but today I am proved wrong.?ÿ

Anybody got any ideas?

Posted : August 24, 2019 2:20 pm

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Posted by: @dedwards1785

6.97 3/4 Chains ?ÿ ?ÿ 7.71/4/100 Chains

I'm going to guess 6 chains, 97.75 links and 7 chains 71.04 links.

Posted : August 24, 2019 2:49 pm

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6 chains and 97.75 links and 7 chains and 71.04 links?

Posted : August 24, 2019 2:50 pm

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I've run into similar descriptions a few times. Running the title back always gave us a more conventional call. My guess is that some brilliant attorney applied his mathematical acumen and revised the description for the good of mankind.

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Posted : August 26, 2019 5:39 am