GUIDE TO WRITING RIGHT-OF-WAY DESCRIPTIONS
Whether it is for a short rural highway widening section or for a new cross-town expressway, all the necessary parcels must be individually and legally described to be acquired. Right-of-way description for an interstate project can show the length and breadth of such an undertaking. The preliminary phase of acquiring the necessary data (i. e., title searches, highway staking, and monument locating) as well as the subsequent office calculations are as much a part of the acquisition process as the descriptions themselves. In this brief paper, these steps have been analyzed and some brief examples of descriptions have been shown. Also, certain legal principles that apply to boundaries, descriptions, and conveyances have been identified.
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Corporate Authors:
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 100
Bethesda, MD United States 20814 -
Authors:
- Rasmussen, D
- Publication Date: 1983-9
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 299-305
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Serial:
- Surveying and Mapping
- Volume: 43
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Appraisals; Data collection; Highway engineering; Highway planning; Interstate highways; Legal documents; Legal factors; Right of way (Land); Surveying
- Old TRIS Terms: Legal descriptions
- Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00384809
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM