point of beginning

Also called: POB, true point of beginning

The corner the description starts from — and must return to.

The corner where the boundary walk starts and ends. Everything before it in the text is usually a commencement route: directions from a known monument or section corner used only to reach the parcel. A closed traverse ends back at the point of beginning.

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 parcel right of way thence

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