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2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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   The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of ...

3. Boundary (real estate) - Wikipedia

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   Boundary (real estate) A property marker outside the United Nations building in New York City. A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line, lot line or bounds ). The boundary (in Latin: limes) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a ...

4. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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   History. The existence of section lines made property descriptions far more straightforward than the old metes and bounds system. The establishment of standard east-west and north-south lines ("township" and "range lines") meant that deeds could be written without regard to temporary terrain features such as trees, piles of rocks, fences, and the like, and be worded in the style such as "Lying ...

5. Plat - Wikipedia

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   Plat. A plat map that shows the location of a lot for sale. In the United States, a plat ( / plæt / [1] or / plɑːt /) [2] ( plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bearing between ...

6. How to deal with neighbors that encroach on your property - AOL

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   An encroachment is tresspass without permission, and you can do something about it. If your neighbor has taken a few feet of your land when building his fence, you can take steps to take back your ...

7. Cadastral surveying - Wikipedia

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   Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties. This is regardless of whether they are on land ...