This is EXAMPLE4.TXT SECOND TRACT: BEGINNING on a hickory, M.A.'s corner, and running thence with a conditional line made by H.J.T. and E.E.C. N 37« E 40 poles to a white oak and black oak on J.M.D.'s line; thence with his line S 65 E 52 poles to a chestnut; thence with the A. line S 76 W 8 poles to a stone where a poplar formerly stood; thence S 59 W 22 poles to a white oak and maple; thence N 15 W 11 poles to a hickory and maple; thence S 89 W 37 poles to the beginning. There is almost surely a typograhpic blunder in this description. If I were interested in this property, I would trace the deeds back at the courthouse. Note that a title search is similar, but a lawyer's secretary only examines the validity of the title to the property. A title search does not concern itself with the land description nor the location of the property. This is land surveying, and is the realm of the professional surveyor. The two tracts of Example3 and Example4 are supposed to total 40 acres, more or less. That's what the deed says, and it must be right because some lawyer's secretary typed it that way.