For example, if the property is square, I might start at the south east corner, then walk north east to a point, then turn 90 degrees north west to a point, then 90 degrees south west to a point and finally 90 degrees south east back to where I started. Think of the description in the physical sense of walking around the property. While the bearings on a survey will always show northerly orientation (statutory law requires it), the actual description (the words) include both northerly and southerly directions. the bearings must always be referred to on a survey based on their northerly orientation.Legal descriptions shall include sufficient information to identify. compass bearings (degrees, minutes and seconds) must be used based on true north and metes and bounds description of the results of an on the ground survey of real property.the description must enclose the property with no gaps,.More precisely, it describes the land by setting out compass directions and distances. In combination, ‘metes and bounds’ has come to mean the boundaries or limits of a particular parcel of land set out in terms of terminal points and angles. Metes: In medieval English, it meant ‘measurement’.īounds: Just think in terms of ‘boundaries’ (the bounds of the property). Technically, all this started in medieval England with the development of common law, but let’s leave that for another time. Typically the system uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of. (Fortunately, it didn’t extend to driving on the left side of the road). As a British colony, we inherited a bunch of weird terms from Jolly Olde England e.g., fee simple, fee tail, freehold, and metes and bounds. Like it or not, metes and bounds descriptions lie at the heart of Ontario legal descriptions. From an old term meaning measures and directions, a method of coming up with a legal description of a parcel of real estate that is much.
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