Aliquot vs. Aliquant

I think you are correct.

I believe the theory behind "aliquot" is when looking at the original government survey of a regular section, all aliquot portions have an aliquot portion of the whole (1/4, 1/16, etc.) and when you are describing a breakdown as the "NW1/4 of the NE1/4 you are describing it "aliquotly". However, when doing a new survey and finding bends at the quarter-corners, and distances that don't equally match their "aliquot" partners, it technically does not break down exactly proportional (except that we hold the original dimensions and proportion to them).

When we move to the breakdown of a "non-regular" section with lots, the "aliquot" descriptions aren't even justifiable by the original governmental survey. Although they are by the definitions in the manual.

Not according to the latest edition of "Definitions of Surveying and Associated Terms".

They don't have the word Aliquant in their definitions and neither does the dictionary this site uses.

found this in Miriams:

Definition of ALIQUANT
: being a part of a number or quantity but not dividing it without leaving a remainder —opposed to aliquot

B-)

Would lots be aliquant parts of a section? Would the SE 1/4 of section 6 be an aliquot portion to the whole section 6? To divide up a section "aliquotly", wouldn't you have to set the 1/4 corners 1/2-way between section corners? In the Northern and Western tiers of a Township, they usually go 1/2 mile from the East, and from the south and leave the excess in the north and the West.