All of those come from Jolly Old England and the Weights and Measurements Act of 1593 under Queen Elizabeth’s watch. That is about ¼ a surveyor’s chain or 1/320 of a “statue mile”. This was a surveyor’s tool and a unit of length that is about 16.5 feet. Up north around the colonies and then spreading into the Midwest you run into measurements by the name of rod or perch or pole. So in Texas and California it equates to 33.5 and 33 inches respectively. But luckily the Mexican Vara is 32.09 inches. The real fun thing about this one, is that it varies by region anywhere from 32 – 43 inches. This one originated in Spain, Portugal, and South America. In Texas and California for instance you will run into the word ‘Vara’.
But going back in time to old deeds you will find in some deeds legal descriptions using regional, and now archaic, units of measurement. So let’s break that down.ĭistance these days is measured in feet, in the US anyway. Without any further explanation, at its core, it really is that simple.īut the two words in the above description that make it tricky (or seem so) is distance and direction. Put a bunch of these together in a legal description and you have plural, metes and bounds. The distance and direction is the mete that makes up that bound. It starts at a marker of some sort, say a fencepost, goes a certain distance in a certain direction and ends at a certain marker. Therefore Metes and Bounds literally means Measurements and Boundaries.Ī simple example would be a property line – any property line. Yes, there are other definitions, but these are the definitions we are concerned with. Mete means measure and bound means boundary. As more and more residential work went in-house and overseas, the more it became apparent that doing commercial work and cell tower searches was a must, not an option.įirst off, let’s look at the name of this legal description system. So I studied up on it, practiced reading them, mapping and basically getting my mind around the subject as much as I could. And if you are going to do commercial and cell tower searches, you absolutely MUST understand metes and bounds. When I spread my wings and started my own title search business, I became concerned that I was missing out on opportunities by not tackling the metes and bounds searches. If it has metes and bounds, send it back. And of those only those types of searches that were platted. The only type of searches she did, and therefore all she could teach me, was residential searches. Years ago when I got into the title search business, way before I did cell tower searches and commercial title searches, I worked for a friend who showed me the ropes – but only a certain length.
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