This Hands-on Workbook (100 pages) covers:

The Public Land Survey System

Base Lines, Principle Meridians, Correction Lines

Sections, Townships, Ranges

Correctly dividing Aliquot portions of a Section

Estimating acreage and identifying problems with acreage descriptions

Government Lots and lands adjacent to water

Running Metes and Bounds Descriptions

Types of Monuments, Points of Beginning, running calls

Deflection Angles, calls to the right and left

Azimuths in a description

Working with Compass Bearings - Degrees, Minutes and Seconds

Lines, Tangent and Non-Tangent Curves in a description

Working with Subdivided Lands

Plats, Re-plats, Surveys

Common Interest Communities – Condominiums, Townhouses,

Co-operatives

How to correctly re-subdivide already platted lots

After completing this workbook, participants should be able to:

• Construct a legal description using the metes-and-bounds method

• Explain the role of POB, monuments, and directions in metes-and-bounds descriptions.

• Explain the process of creating a legal description using the rectangular survey method or acreage description

• Describe the various monuments and lines in the rectangular survey

• Divide sections and determine acreage

• Explain the process of creating a legal description by platting

• Describe how benchmarks and datum are used in measuring elevations

• Define and use various units of measurement

• Accurately locate and/or draw complex legal descriptions
  
  Book available for $99.00
  

• Jeanne Johnson & Associates
  Education and Consulting for the Land Title Industry
  phone 651-426-9962