Chattel Mortgage » land description http://www.chattelmortgage.com Financing for personal property, rules and regulations Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:13:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Common land description terminology http://www.chattelmortgage.com/2010/07/common-land-description-terminology/ http://www.chattelmortgage.com/2010/07/common-land-description-terminology/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:25:59 +0000 Settlement Negotiator http://chattelmortgage.com/?p=16 ...Read the Rest]]> Calif. starting points for land descriptions using U.S. Gov. Rect. Survey System:
A rectangular system of land survey that divides a district into 24-square mile quadrangles from the meridian (north-south line) and the baseline (east-west line); the tracts are divided into 6-mile-square parts called townships, which are in turn divided into 36 tracts, each 1 mile square, called sections.
4. Know land sizes; how large is a:
section — 1 sq mile
acre One acre comprises 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet.[1] While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends on which yard it is based on. Originally, an acre was understood as a selion of land sized at one furlong (660 ft) long and one chain (66 ft) wide; this may have also been understood as an approximation of the amount of land an ox could plough in one day. A square enclosing one acre is approximately 208 feet and 9 inches (63.6 metres) on a side. But as a unit of measure an acre has no prescribed shape; any perimeter enclosing 43,560 square feet is an acre in size.

5. What are the recognized legal methods of land description:
rectangular survey
meets and bounds
lot and block number
monument or occupancy

6. Another question regarding the size of land; ½ a section has how many acres, ¼ section, etc:
Since 1 section has 640 acres — 1/2 a section would be 320 acres

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