What does a legal description of your property look like?
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It usually gives the degrees, minutes, seconds of the identifying posts and the distances between them.
Also the lot, block, parcel number as noted in the local government registry.
It is on legal sized paper and describes your property boundaries. Depending on how old the description, they can be very vague. Like 120 rods to the oak tree on the north east corner of the property.
lines with #'s and metes and bounds desriptions usually found on what is called a survey
A "legal description" is a property description that is filed along with a Deed or a Mortgage. It is provided by a Title company after they receive a survey.
It normally says "Legal Description" at the top, but sometimes it will say "Description of Property Known as Tax Map Lot xx in Block xx, City of XXX, xx County, State of XX" and will go on to describe the property like so:
BEGINNING at a point in the northwesterly line of xxxx Avenue therein distant 103.13 feet as measure blah blah blah
Then the coordinates are provided in list form, ie: N.59"47'30"W until the property is blocked in by all the coordinates
Then it will list the street address in the form of "Commonly known as ..."
Then the legal description will cite the surveyor and date of survey.
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It'll be like: the NE corner of section such-and-such, of township such-and-such, starting from a line bounded.
Actually, for all of the detail, it's usually less than about a 1/3 of a page typed out.
Well, around here (Missouri), mostly it starts with a square mile (pretty sure that's the "section") and subdivides it from there.
A square mile is 640 acres, so it gets split up a lot.
There are two types of legal descriptions:
Aliquit parts (I'm sure I spelled that wrong)
and Metes & Bounds.
And Alliquit part description would be more simple:
The south 154 feet of the north half of the sw 1/4 of the nw 1/4 of Section 20, Township 21 North, Range 5 East, King Count, WA.
Metes and bounds is like this:
"Commencing at the south east corner of said government lot six, thence North 0 (degrees) 22' east, 225 feet to the true point of beginning, thence North 2 (degrees) 33' west, 334 feet, thence..." you get the picture.
There are also "abbreviated" legal descriptions, that can be as simple as "Lot 7 of the Melodye Park Subidivision, recorded in book 22 of Plats, page 37, on file at the King County Recorder's office."
All three versions are legally acceptable.
the legal description of the property is not something that you can see more like something that you read for instance it would begin with the subdivisions name (SELECTED INVESTMENTS) then the block (block 23) and then the lot (24)
it is much more complex if the property is rural.
Ask a local relator because they have access to a plat book and they know how to use it. Or call the city that you live in they should be able to tell you.
you can find them recorded in the assessors office
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