Do what MightyMoe said, and then the description should just be something like: the portion of the reserve shown on the attached plat.?ÿ Also, get th...

I learned all the math one would need to be a surveyor in high school, but the only discussion on boundaries I remember was a quick explanation about ...

Disgusting.

@andy-nold I dont know what specific problems the original poster is upset about, but the problems I see rarely have anything to do with the problems...

I dont really have an answer, but I think what they get away with is disgusting. There is a mountain us sub professional work out there in every land ...

@shawn-billings Language has a lot if nuauinnces. I wasn't accusing you of trying to convince me.?ÿ

@shawn-billings Showing a boundary along the centerline of a road only requires a label of the centerline.?ÿ You can present unlimited information o...

@shawn-billings "To a point" does have a purpose, but you will never convince me to use, "a distance of".?ÿ

@rankin_file You didn't explain that in your original post. One would assume that if a land surveyor was objecting to grid distances in a deed, there...

@rankin_file I don't know about trying to cheat a client out of land, but it's a pretty crappy practice to describe any land for boundary purposes wi...

It's not a monolith.?ÿ A monolith is made out of one piece of something. This was constructed out of multiple pieces.?ÿ ?ÿ

@thebionicman But why worry when you don't match the last surveyor by 0.2' in 1/2 mile. Are you going to reject their monuments, or tell your client ...

We certainly are capable of making more precise measurements than that, but really who cares? We could spend more time measuring and more money on equ...

@dmyhill Relying on what a surveyor thinks is standard practice is bad practice for writing legal descriptions. Standard practices change over time, ...

@mark-mayer Can you point one out? Other then a cardinal parcel being subdivided? Becasue I have never encountered one I didn't have questions about....

@dmyhill I don't see how it is any better, in one the distance is uncertain, in the other the area, and thus the measurement is uncertain.?ÿ BC&L...

@norman-oklahoma Page 92 5th edition BC&LP:?ÿ "Many landowners, attorneys, and others commonly use the "of " type of descriptions, as in..."the ...

@norman-oklahoma This is still often litigated and the courts are all over the place. BC&LP is a good introductory resource but there are plenty ...

@mark-mayer We might be talking about different things becasue I dont see how the section being regular has much to do with finding the E. 900 feet o...

@mark-mayer In what case is it not ambiguous? Maybe, if all the sides are exactly cardinal and exactly match the deed distances? Even then though you...