Vocab 8-12

Legal description

• A legal document for property taxes.
• This method provides the most precise and official description of a property.

• A summary of property ownership history.
• A map showing the property's location.

Metes and Bounds

• The oldest method of surveying property.This method measures a property in a circular direction starting at one point and ending at the same point.

• Metes and bounds is a method for calculating taxes.
• Metes and bounds refers to a style of architecture.
• Metes and bounds is a type of legal contract.

Benchmark

• Test

• Used to measure a distance vertically

• Used to measure a distance horizontally

• When using metes and bounds this is the starting point that begins with a permanent reference mark.

Datum

• Used to measure horizontally

• Used to measure somethings width

• Used to measure a distance vertically

• Used to measure somethings length

Township

• In this, the legal description will be identified by section. One section equals to 640 acres.

• In this, the legal description will be identified by section. One section equals to 600 acres.

• In this, the legal description will be identified by section. One section equals to 400 acres.

• In this, the legal description will be identified by section. One section equals to 460 acres.

Topography is

• the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area
• the measurement of sea levels
• the process of land development
• These lines show the contour of the land.

Lot and Block is

• A method for calculating property taxes.
• A system for identifying parcels of land.
• In many residential subdivisions, properties are identified by these numbers.

• A way to measure land area.

Acreage is

• the total number of animals in a farm
• For larger properties, this is often used to describe the size of the land.

• the area of land measured in acres
• the measurement of temperature

Express is

• a database management system
• a programming language
• This contract is one in which all the terms of the agreement have been stated and agreed to by all parties.

• a front-end framework

Implied is

• suggested or understood without being directly stated
• clearly defined
• implied by tone
• This contract is an unstated or unintentional agreement that may be deemed to exist when the actions of any of the parties suggest the existence of an agreement.