Looking at the diagram can you tell me what makes up the NE1/4, NE1/4 of Section 1?
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I know it sounds basic.
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Better yet, assume lots 15 and 16 are the shown as an aliquot part and then you are asked to survey the NE1/4, NE1/4 of Section 1.?ÿ How would that be defined?
Those lots cannot be accurately or uniquely described by quarters in this case.?ÿ There is serious ambiguity.?ÿ You are going to have to figure out how the descriptions came about in order to interpret them.
There are other situations where there are two quarter sections and 8 lots where despite being inaccurate there is only one reasonable interpretation of quarters referring to the lots.
No such thing as the NE4NE4 of Section 1. Generally going back to the patents and tracking forward resolves the issue of incompetently written descriptions.
Couldn't say what that description means, since lots cannot be described as aliquot parts, at least not according to the BLM.
Ask 'em to point to, or color in, the land they want surveyed...
Looks like something in Missouri.?ÿ Sometimes those standard parallels aren't really parallel.
I 'second' Moe's reply. Spot on.?ÿ
A specific Section 1, TWP, RANGE would be more helpful to aide this discussion than a sketch. There are different instructions for closing sections based on the time the plats were made. We have seen closing sections with plats and patents that do not refer to government lots and those that do. I happen to live in section 4 and the patents and plat in the oversized NE and NW quarters of the north tier of sections do not refer to government lots. It should be noted our section is not as oversized as the subject section.?ÿ
My wife's family has land that abuts a correction line, what is called a standard parallel in later terminology. Those sections have SE and SW quarters and 12 government lots. The northern ones run about 53 acres and the others are nominally 40.
Many were broken up into smaller parcels, such as Lot XX in Government Lot YY in Section ZZ.. One description reads the north 2 acres of the east 10 acres of Government Lot YY in section ZZ.
The early descriptions I think just called them lots, and when divided further then lot in government lot. Makes reading the older descriptions tricky.
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What is really fun is a case of having lots as shown, but, they are being crossed by an Indian Treaty Line.
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In my specific case, it was a case of an east-west ITL set in the 1830's?ÿ that ran about a quarter mile to the south of the Standard Parallel.?ÿ The lands to the north of the ITL were surveyed by the Government about 10 years prior to the lands to the south of the ITL.?ÿ Of course, there is a bend in the north-south lines on either side of the ITL.
