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SAMSAMIRLANDERIRLANDER
Chapter 10Chapter 10
Florida Real Estate:Florida Real Estate: Principles, Practices and Principles, Practices and
License LawLicense Law
Chapter 10Chapter 10
Property DescriptionProperty Description
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Key TermsKey Terms
Base line
Benchmarks
Block
Check
Correction lines
Government rectangular survey system
Legal descriptions
Lots
Monument
Point of beginning
Principal meridian
Range
Sections
Tier
Township
Township lines
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Methods of descriptionMethods of description
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Map of subdivisionRecorded in public land records
Restrictive covenants
Identified by reference to recorded plat
Block: Block: largest unit
Lot: Lot: parcel on which home is built
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Metes: Metes: distance
Bounds: Bounds: direction
Walk around the perimeter of the property
Monument: Monument: object used to define
a cornerNatural monument
Permanent monument
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Point of beginning (POB): Point of beginning (POB): permanent reference markers
Identified on the plat
Marked by an iron pinDirection & distances from POB
Must return to POB
Compass directions degrees, minutes and seconds
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1780’s created by Congress
Intersecting principalprincipal meridiansmeridians and base linesbase lines
Florida intersects in Tallahassee
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North south lines every 24 miles to east and west of principal meridians
East west lines every 24 miles north and south of base lines
Check:Check: 24 mile square
Correction LinesCorrection Lines
Guide MeridiansGuide Meridians
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Methods of DescriptionMethods of Description
Range: Range: north and south
Tier: Tier: east and westAKA: TownshipTownship
6 miles square formed by intersecting range and township linestownship lines
Row of townships
running east and west
Ranges and TiersRanges and Tiers
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Base lineBase line
Each square in the grid Each square in the grid is called a township is called a township
TownshipTownship
Principal MeridianPrincipal Meridian
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Base lineBase line
TownshipTownship
Principal MeridianPrincipal Meridian
Each township is 6 miles long Each township is 6 miles long on each side. The total area of on each side. The total area of a township is 36 miles square a township is 36 miles square
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Township have 36 sections
Section is 1 mile square
Sections are numbered 1 - 36
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Legal description of a section
1. Section number
2.Tier referenced by number and direction
3. Range number and direction
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EXAMPLE:EXAMPLE:
Section 14, Tier 14 South
(T14S), Range (R4W), of
the Tallahassee Principal
Meridian and Base Line
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Basic FactsBasic Facts
2 ways to describe this square
4 miles square
16 square miles11
11 22
22
33
33
44
441 section = 640 miles1 section = 640 miles
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Area = length X width
4 X 4 = 16 square miles
11
11 22
22
33
33
44
44
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Basic FactsBasic Facts
Checkerboard is divided into units called townshipsCheckerboard is divided into units called townships
townshiptownship
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1 township = 6 miles X 6 miles
1 township = 6 miles square
1 township = 36 square miles
1 section = 1 mile square
1 section = 1 square mile
1 section = 640 acres
1 township = 36 section
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Quarter sections
¼ of ¼ of a section
¼ of ¼ of ¼ of a section
= 160 acres= 160 acres
160160 44
= 40 acres= 40 acres
640640 44
4040 44
= 10 acres= 10 acres
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Northeast quarter of section 6
Southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 6
= 160 acres= 160 acres
160160 44
= 40 acres= 40 acres
640640 44
= 160 acres= 160 acres640640 44
4040acresacres
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The tract contains 40 acres
= 160 acres= 160 acres
160160 44
= 40 acres= 40 acres
640640 4440 40
acresacres
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