GOVT 406 Quiz Describing

GOVT 406 Quiz: Describing Land Interests

1. The description, “All my land except the spring house”:
2. How many square miles in a township?
3. Which of the following would make a metes and bounds description insufficient?
4. When a deed description is invalid:
5. A latent ambiguity:
6. Each section contains:
7. How many sections in a township?
8. Which of the following would be a parcel of land with 1,600 acres?
9. In the event there is an ambiguity in a description, which of the following would be used to resolve the ambiguity?
10. A deed for conveyance of land included the following description: “The L. W. Anacker farm in the town of Stanton.”
11. “All land but my spring” is a sufficient description.
12. Townships are numbered according to their distance from guide meridians.
13. Oral evidence can be used to clarify a latent ambiguity.
14. If there is a plat map and a metes and bounds description with an ambiguity, the plat map will control the result.
15. A metes and bounds description requires an immovable starting point.
16. A street address is a sufficient legal description.
17. A township has 640 sections.
18. A metes and bounds description that has no beginning point is legally insufficient.
19. A description in a deed that refers to a plat map that is then not attached to the deed is legally insufficient.
20. A risk in metes and bounds descriptions is that starting points can move or disappear.