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REAL ESTATE EXAM PREPGEORGIA REAL ESTATE EXAM GLOSSARY
The rectangular survey system, also called the government survey system, describes land through principal meridians, baselines, townships, ranges, sections, and fractional parts of sections.
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Legal descriptions
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Learn the rule, separate it from the nearest distractor, then apply it to a Georgia fact pattern.
What does Rectangular survey system mean?
The rectangular survey system, also called the government survey system, describes land through principal meridians, baselines, townships, ranges, sections, and fractional parts of sections.
How do you separate the nearest exam answer?
The system creates a grid. Metes and bounds follows boundary calls, and lot and block refers to a recorded subdivision plat.
What changes or stays the same in Georgia?
Georgia is not a federal rectangular-survey state, but the method remains part of the national property-ownership curriculum tested on the Georgia examination.
A description identifies the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of a numbered section in a stated township and range.
Do not reject the term merely because the property in the stem is outside Georgia. The national exam can test all three description systems.
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REAL ESTATE EXAM PREPGEORGIA REAL ESTATE EXAM
GLOSSARY TERM GUIDERetrieve the rule under exam conditions
Answer before reading the explanation. Then explain why every distractor belongs to a different term.
A description reads “the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 14, Township 3 North, Range 2 West.” A section is 640 acres. How many acres does it describe?
- A
160 acres
- B
10 acres
- C
80 acres
- D
40 acres
Work from the end: a quarter of the 640-acre section is 160 acres, and a quarter of that is 40 acres. Stopping after one division gives 160 acres. This grid system is tested nationally even though Georgia is not a rectangular-survey state.
Mark each box only when you can perform the skill without looking.
I can define the term in one precise sentence.
I can separate it from the closest look-alike.
I can explain the Georgia rule or confirm that the national rule applies.
I can answer the practice check and explain every option.
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