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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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   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 wall, or similar, but ...

4. 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 ...

5. What is a property survey, and how do I get one? - AOL

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   Key takeaways. A property survey legally defines the boundaries of a plot of land. Mortgage lenders and/or title companies may require one when you're buying a house. You may also need one when ...

6. Cadastre - Wikipedia

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   Cadastre. A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property 's metes-and-bounds of a country. [1] [2] Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map . In most countries, legal systems have developed around the original administrative systems and use the cadastre to define the dimensions and location ...

7. 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 ...