SUR 242 - Legal Descriptions

4 Credits
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

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