Land 123, practice for first quiz. Click to begin.

__Which of the following authorities supervised the first surveys of public lands? (A) the General Land Office (B) the Department of the Interior (C) the Bureau of Land Management (D) the Surveyor General of the U.S. (E) the Geographer of the U.S. Click here to go to next slide.

__The chain has been the standard unit of length in the Public Land Surveying System since its beginning. One of the reasons for its durability is its convenient relationship with the description of land in acres. Which of the following equations correctly describes this relationship? (A) 1 sq chain = 1 ac (B) 80 sq chains = 40 ac (C) 10 sq chains = 1 ac (D) 100 sq chains = 1 ac (E) 20 sq chains = 10 ac Click here to go to next slide.

__In the past, guide meridians and standard parallels were not always established at intervals of 24 mi. Which other interval would be most likely? (A) 23 mi (B) 33 mi (C) 21 mi (D) 36 mi (E) 34 mi Click here to go to next slide.

__Which of the following elements that can control the location of land boundaries is usually considered the most important when found to be in conflict with the others? (A) a senior right of possession (B) a call for an adjoiner (C) a call for an artificial monument (D) a call for a natural monument (E) an unwritten right of possession Click here to go to next slide.

(A) a call for a particular distance along a boundary __Between two private owners of sequential conveyances, which of the following would most likely control if their deeds contain conflicting elements? (A) a call for a particular distance along a boundary (B) a call for a particular direction along a boundary (C) a call for a specific acreage (D) a senior right (E) a call for a natural monument Click here to go to next slide.

Click here to go to next slide. __Which of the following elements that can control the location of land boundaries is usually considered the least important when found to be in conflict with the others? (A) a call for distance (B) a call for an artificial monument (C) a call for a survey (D) the area of the property described (E) a call for a natural monument Click here to go to next slide.

__Monuments sometimes cannot be conclusively proved or disproved __Monuments sometimes cannot be conclusively proved or disproved. In such circumstances, a monument may be accepted by reputation. What is the term used to describe such a monument? (A) a monument of common report (B) a monument by informative evidence (C) a defective monument (D) a reversionary monument (E) a monument by extrapolation Click here to go to next slide.

Click here to go to next slide. __A description of land by the consecutive reference to courses and distances around its perimeter is called which of the following? (A) a bounds description (B) a plat description (C) an aliquot description (D) a strip description (E) a metes and bounds description Click here to go to next slide.

__The first point described in a metes and bounds description is often called the point of beginning. Which of the following would be characteristic of a good point of beginning? (A) Its identity is clear and certain in the field (B) It has greater standing than any other corner recited in the description (C) The destruction of its monumentation will void the description (D) It is a standard section corner (E) Both A and B are true Click here to go to next slide.

__In the event of a conflict within a legal description containing the following elements, which would most probably be presumed superior to the others? (A) a called-for monument found undisturbed (B) a specified state plane coordinate (C) a direction expressed to the nearest second (D) a distance recited to the thousandth of a foot (E) a called-for area Click here to go to next slide.

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