Twenty years ago I did some surveying for a couple that were splitting up. It wasn't pretty, I was hired through the wife's attorney. A line partially fenced was agreed on, so I surveyed it; husband got 200 acres north of the fence, wife got 800 acres south of the fence. I didn't do the boundary of the south parcel which was granted as aliquot parts lying south of the fence, all I was doing was the fence line. Husband is long gone, wife wants to move to where her parents live so she wants to sell and I survey 100 acres for a young guy along her south line. She is now down to 700 acres and the title people want her deed excepting out the 100 acres. Easy enough, I'll simply get her deed from our company word document and insert the new 100 ac parcel as an exception to it.
But can't find her deed. In fact, I don't remember writing, it but there it is written with my nomenclature for the fence. I search the computer systems, the scans, the hard copies and it's just not there. Finally, I look closer at the description and realize that the preamble isn't something I would write, my survey of the fence was retyped and inserted into this deed. Apparently, the attorney for the wife used my description for the north parcel, the attorney for the husband re-wrote it and used it for the wife's portion by changing the preamble. I'm guessing the husband didn't want anything to do with hiring us since the wife's attorney was my contact.
Divorce's are wild sometimes.
Anyway, I get to type this over written preamble and add the rest to it.
Was the first clue the use of the term "leaps and bounds"?
Was the first clue the use of the term "leaps and bounds"?
Ha close; the big clue were all the aliquot parts spelled out in the preamble. It's rare to see that, not unheard of, but rare. The Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 24. There were some other clues, but I figured out who wrote if from that.