Specifications for descriptions of land
Subtitle: for use in land orders, executive orders, proclamations, Federal Register documents, and land description databases
By: produced in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget, United States Federal Geographic Data Committee, Cadastral Subcommittee
Contributors: United States. Office of Management and Budget; United States. Federal Geographic Data Committee. Cadastral Subcommittee; United States. Division of Cadastral Survey
Edition: Revised 2015.
Publisher: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Real property; Public lands; Management; Public land records
Other titles: Specifications for descriptions of land; Specifications for descriptions of tracts of land for use in executive orders and proclamations
Description: The Bureau of Land Management is the Nation's surveyor and maintains extensive current and historical information about land ownership in the United States. Most titles to land, public or private, begin with a land description established by an original cadastral survey. Persons preparing land descriptions must be knowledgeable of the requirements for the various types of land descriptions. They must use the proper format, terms, and phrases and clearly state the intent, with qualification, to ensure the content of the land description is free of ambiguity. The Specifications provide guidance for writing accurate boundary descriptions and locations by survey, the form and arrangement to be followed for Executive and public land orders and proclamations, and examples of boundary descriptions.
Notes: "Suggested citation for technical reference: Specifications for descriptions of land (2015)."

"Cadastral Survey"--Cover.