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6.A document by which the United States conveys, to those entitled thereto, legal title to some portion of the public lands
12.The later patent issued usually has the subordinate right in a situation where a later survey is in conflict with an earlier survey. (2 words)
13.At first sight; on the first appearance; on the face of it; a fact presumed to be true unless disproved by some evidence to the contrary (2 words)
14.A part of a measurement that divides the measurement without a remainder.
15.The stopping of a person from asserting a claim by reason of his own previous representations which refute his new claim
18.A term applied metaphorically to the series of conveyances, or other forms of alienation, affecting a particular parcel of land, arranged consecutively from the Government or original source of title down to the present holder, each of the instruments included being terms a "link." (3 words)
20.A written statement recognized by law as to the definite location of a tract of land by reference to a survey, recorded map or adjoining property (2 words)
22.A survey which creates, marks, defines, retraces or reestablishes the boundaries and subdivisions of the public land of the United States. (2 words)
25.applies an even distribution of a determined excess or deficiency of measurement, ascertained by retracement of an established line, so as to give concordant relation between all parts; that is, the new values given to each of the several parts, as determined by the measurement, shall bear the same relation to the record lengths as the new measurement of the whole line bears to that record.
26.An outstanding claim or encumbrance which, if valid, would affect or impair the title of the owner of a particular estate.
27.A method of restoring a lost corner of four townships or four interior sections (2 words}
28.An incidental right attached to a principal property right and passing in possession with it.
29.A north-south line from which longitudes (or departures) and azimuths are reckoned; or a plane, normal to the geoid or spheroid, defining such a line
30.An official rerunning and remarking intended to supersede the records of the original survey and establish new section lines and subdivisions on public lands only (2 words)
32.An agency of the Department of the Interior, it was created July 16, 1946. (Abrev.)
35.Act of concurrence by the adjoining owners bearing on the practical location of their common boundary where the definite or more accurate position of the line or lines has not or cannot be defined by survey.
36.A north-south tier of townships or sections.
38.A retracement and reestablishment of the lines of the original survey in their true original positions according to the best available evidence of the positions of the original corners. (2 words)
41.A composite of the survey plats of a township on which is shown the ownership and land status (3 words)
42.In real property law, a transfer of legal title to land. An instrument, such as a deed, by which interest in real property is created or by which title to real property is transferred from grantor to grantee.
46.The amount by which a series of survey measurements fail to yield a theoretical or previously determined value for a survey quantity; hence a measure of the accumulated errors and blunders in the work
47.An unlawful and adverse intrusion within the boundary of a property, such as cultivation of the soil, enclosure by fence, the construction of an improvement, extension of a tunnel, underground operation or comparable act.
48.To affirm to be true or genuine
49.The first patent issued usually takes precedence in a situation where a later survey is in conflict with an earlier survey (2 words}
50.A corner whose position cannot be determined, beyond reasonable doubt, either from traces of the original marks or from acceptable evidence or testimony that bears on the original position, and whose location can be restored only by reference to one or more interdependent corners.
51.A physical structure, such as an iron post, marked stone or tree in place, which marks the location of a corner point established by a Cadastral Survey
52.A right based upon its adverse using extending to the limits of tradition and memory
53.In ordinary survey usage, a defined reference for survey measurements
54.A point on the surface of the earth, determined by the surveying process, which defines an extremity on a boundary of the public lands.
55.A line which is extended east and west on a parallel of latitude from an Initial point and from which are initiated other lines for the Cadastral Survey of the public lands within the area covered by the principal meridian that runs through the same initial point. (2 words)
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1.The reference direction can be North or South and the meridian may be assumed, grid, magnetic, astronomic, or geodetic
2.Horizontal direction reckoned clockwise from the meridian plane.
3.Evidence gathered by testimony of witnesses
4.A system inaugurated by the Continental Congress on May 20, 1785 for the survey of the public lands of the United States. (3 words)
5.One at whose point there are no remaining traces of the monument, or its accessories, but whose location has been perpetuated, or the point for which may be recovered beyond reasonable doubt, but the acts and testimony of the interested landowners, competent surveyors, or other qualified local authorities, or witnesses, or by some acceptable record evidence. (2 words)
7.A method of proportioning measurement in the restoration of a lost corner whose position is determined with reference to alignment in one direction (2 words)
8.To abolish by authoritative action. To do away with or annul.
9.The legal right to cross the lands of another. Also used to indicate the strip of land for a road, railroad or power line (3 words)
10.A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, or other matter of description, on the land.
11.Rights, such as in ownership of land, which are real, actual, genuine and worthy of acceptance. (2 words}
16.A deed in the nature of a release containing words of conveyance as well as release. (2 words)
17.A monumented survey point usually on the line of survey near a corner established as a reference when the corner is so situated as to render its monumentation or ready use impracticable (2 words)
19.An iron post or rock cap accessory used where the point for a corner monument is such that, for practical purposes, a permanent corner monument cannot be established
21.The unit of survey of the public lands; normally a quadrangle
23."Actual, continued, visible, notorious, distinct and hostile." (2 words)
24.Also called "correction line." A line extended east or west from the principal meridian, usually at intervals of 24 miles north and south of the base line, along a parallel of latitude
26.Corner established where a survey line intersects a previously fixed boundary at a point between corners.
31.In deeds or conveyances, a clause used by the grantor to retain some part of the former estate by excluding it from the deed or grant
33.A method of describing a parcel of land by citing the owners of abutting lands and describing the length of each course of a boundary as "along" some apparent line, such as, "along a stream" or "along the road." (3 words)
34.a unit of linear measure, one hundredth of a chain and equivalent to 7.92 inches (0.66 foot)
37.A boundary of a township surveyed in a north-south direction (2 words)
39.A claim which has as its basis that which the law considers prima facie a good title, but which, by reason of some defect not appearing on its face, is not in fact a title. (3 words)
40.A survey made to ascertain the direction and length of lines and to identify monuments and marks of an established prior survey.
43.Established by bringing into court an adverse claimant and there compelling him either to establish his claim or be forever estopped from asserting it. (2 words)
44.An area between two surveys, the record of which describes them as having one or more common boundary lines with no omission
45.As used technically by the BLM, the drawing which represents the particular area included in a survey, such as a township, private land claim or mineral claim, and the lines surveyed, established, retraced or resurveyed, showing the direction and length of each such line
51.A representation on a plane surface, at an established scale, of the physical features (natural, artificial, or both) of a part or the whole of the earth's surface, by means of signs and symbols, and with the means of orientation indicated

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