legal description
Deed's boundary text
A legal description is the formal identification of a parcel of real estate in deeds, titles, and other property documents.
Unlike street addresses, legal descriptions use precise methods—metes and bounds, lot and block numbers, or government survey coordinates—that allow the property to be located unambiguously: The legal description identifies the northeast quarter of Section 12.
- deedWritten property conveyance
- parcelWrapped item for shipping
- field notesDocumentation from fieldwork
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- surveySystematic data collection
metes and bounds · title · boundary · range · tax map · closing · lot · plat · township · bearing · coordinates · easement · subdivision · property transfer · acreage · landmarks · property line · right-of-way
- property lawfreehold, leasehold, deed, deeds, title
- surveyingsurveyor, theodolite, land surveys, survey markers, triangulation
- land recordsland registry, land records, parcel, land titles, cadastre
- Land Surveysection, township, range, meridian, quarter section
- land surveyingsurveyor, plat, boundary marker, bounds, boundary
- land surveyssurvey markers, boundary lines, boundary markers, site plan, property lines
formality of property identification
legal descriptionstreet address
Building's numbered position
mailing address · postal address · physical address · nickname · common name