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College Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SUR 242 - Legal Descriptions

Credits 4
This course covers the analysis, interpretation and writing of legal descriptions, proper form, controlling elements, metes and bounds, sectionalized land descriptions, special shapes, easements and rights-of-way.

Course Outcomes
  1. Define the several different types of legal land Descriptions
  2. Identify the controlling elements in a Legal Description
  3. Compose simple Metes and Bounds and other types of Descriptions
  4. Make correct reference to angles and the Basis of Bearings in interpreting and writing descriptions.
  5. Describe lands with water boundaries and 3-dimensional spatial shapes.