REM 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Roman Numerals
20 Apr 2016
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A legal land description is a written identification and formal depiction of land in order that the property can be precisely located. Primary documents should always be relied on. Secondary documents show not be relied on. Township division of a county into several distinct areas for administrative purposes. (usually square shaped) Concession strips of land making up a township, each separated by a road allowance which remained public property. (numbered in roman numerals) Single front township a township originally consisting of 200-acre lots. Double front township originally consisting of 100-acre half-lots. Sectional system township originally consisting of 1000-acre sections with subsequent divisions into lots. Measurement of land based on the old chains and links system.
