parcel

Also called: tract

A single defined piece of land — one closed boundary.

One contiguous piece of land under a single description. A deed can contain several parcels, plus easements and exceptions, each with its own closed boundary and its own acreage.

Where you'll see it

Surveying Basics

How to Read a Metes and Bounds Description

Deeds are written in their own language. Here is how to walk one line by line — and what the closure math is actually telling you at the end.

Related terms in Anatomy of a Description

call easement legal description metes and bounds monument point of beginning right of way thence

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