I am EXAMPLE3.TXT

This example is an actual land description of a parcel of land in Wayne County,
Kentucky.

FIRST TRACT: BEGINNING at a beech old survey and running with the old lines N
32 W 15 poles and 9 links to a maple; thence N 46-3/4 W 19-3/4 poles to two
small chestnut oaks on the old line; thence N 19 W 25 poles and 7 links to a
hickory: thence E 37 poles to a hickory and maple; thence S 15 E 11« poles to a
white oak and maple, corner to the old T.  A.  survey; thence with the said old
line S 10 E 17 poles and 5 links to an ash on the old line; thence with a new
line S 58« W 16 poles and 12 links to a dogwood on the bank; thence S 30 W 49
poles and 5 links to the place of beginning.

This is EXAMPL3A.CAV You will notice that the survey crosses itself.  Think
about what it means to have a survey cross itself as this one does.

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.  This
is EXAMPL3B.CAV

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 only examines the validity of
the title to the property.  A title search does not examine land description
nor the location of the property.  This is land surveying, and is the job of
the professional surveyor.

These two tracts 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.

For a description of what is actually on the ground, see "EXAMPLE4".