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Lots 1 and 2, S1/2NE1/4, Section 1,,,,,
excepting a tract of land beginning at a point lying South 1270 feet from the NE corner of Lot 1; thence South 749 feet, thence West 1310 feet, thence North 749 feet, thence East 749 feet to the point of beginning,,,,,,,,,
including a tract of land beginning at a point lying South 1270 feet from the NE corner of Lot 1; thence South 749 feet, thence West 1310 feet, thence North 749 feet, thence East 749 feet to the point of beginning,,,,,,,,,
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Just the start of the fun with this mess of a deed.?ÿ
As a youngster I found I enjoyed puzzles and mysteries of any kind.?ÿ Had no idea that would lead to the unheard of profession known as land surveying where solving puzzles and mysteries is a nearly everyday occurrence.
I chatted with the owners, they are not interested in fixing this abomination.
The property sits on 160 acres that is rife with title screw ups, all caused by the written descriptions, including property that's been sold out of the parcel, messing up calls from earlier deeds, leaving out calls in the description.
Without doing research back you can't put the parcels together. I think it's the worst I've seen, it's almost like the descriptions were written by an inebriated attorney.?ÿ
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Around here I refer to those as Oklahoma's best "farm to courthouse" descriptions.?ÿ They are just about as common as muddy roads. I ran into one the other day that looks like this:
If it wasn't for the acreage I might have had a hard time figuring out where it was located.
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I guess that last notation in the string is the SW1/4, tough one to read for sure.?ÿ
It does say SW.?ÿ And it is in the SW/4. It took a while to figure out the rest of the hieroglyph.?ÿ It helped when I realized the grantor's initials were "KC".?ÿ That one really wasn't too bad.?ÿ
I've seen a lot worse.?ÿ I couldn't find a copy of it, but I had one that read something like "Beginning at the NE corner of the NE/4, then west 1500' to the NW corner of the NE/4"...
I had to read back about 50 years but the description actually read "Beginning at the NE corner of the NE/4, then west 1500' to a point 1140' east of the NW corner of the NE/4"...Apparently someone had left out those three or four words out when they copied the description years ago.?ÿ
And the land had changed hands three times since then and nobody seemed to notice the error.
That's a truly remarkable deed. I'm sure whoever wrote it understood it perfectly.?ÿ
And it served part of it's intended purpose: Someone thought they bought some land and someone got some money for selling some land.?ÿ
I'm sure some here will recall how I posted a number of years back about being handed a deed from somewhere in North Carolina and being struck by the call that read something like "thence 27 rods east to a cucumber; thence......"?ÿ The only cucumbers of which I was aware were quite edible but only able to last very long if pickled and put in a jar.?ÿ That was the day I learned there is a thing known as a cucumber tree and that was the corner monument.?ÿ I suppose if I dug around long enough I might be able to find a local deed making reference to a pecan, without adding the word tree thereafter.?ÿ That, too, would be difficult to locate years later with any certainty.?ÿ Sort of like looking for a railroad spike near a railroad track.
That deed posted last week by JosephNY is about as bad as any I've tried to decipher.?ÿ Several courses, and then a course Northwesterly (with no distance or measured bearing) to a point in a road, and Southerly (no distance) along the road. Then another parcel that doesn't close by many chains with an exception that seems to be bigger than the parcel and an exception that doesn't tie well to any of the other points.
Off topic, but we have stop perpetuating the practice of references like the SW corner of the NE1/4.?ÿ Is that the same as the NW corner of the SE1/4, or is it different? Aliqout part corners have names, use them.
(sarcasm)?ÿ There were some townships down here that were subdivided using cucumbers as section corners.?ÿ But to differentiate they used watermelons for the township corners. 😉
?ÿa course Northwesterly (with no distance or measured bearing)
Joseph sent me an old survey which seems to mostly match the same parcel, and that course is given Southwesterly nearly perpendicular to the road with a distance, followed by a series of calls that seem to follow the road as seen on Google Earth.?ÿ Not sure what the surveyor had to suggest that change - maybe a still older deed that wasn't copied right?
Can see you are quite intrigued with that multi-page description.?ÿ Keep after it.?ÿ Then report back, please.?ÿ
