Insights on agentic AI for legal description automation, proptech workflows, metes-and-bounds surveying, and the technology behind Legal-Plot — from the founder.
Metes and bounds is the oldest form of land description used in the United States. Understanding its structure — bearings, distances, monuments, and closure — is the foundation for reading any deed or title document.
The Public Land Survey System divides 30 states into a grid of townships, ranges, and sections. It is the spatial backbone behind nearly every rural legal description written west of Ohio.
Closure is the mathematical test that tells you whether a metes and bounds description is internally consistent. Here is how it is computed, what the numbers mean, and when a high misclosure is actually expected.
Section corners, quarter corners, sixteenth corners, meander corners — each PLSS monument type plays a specific role in tying a metes and bounds description to the ground. Here is how each type is identified and used.
Agentic AI is reshaping how title companies, surveyors, and proptech teams process legal descriptions. Here is what the term means in a land-records context, what it can and cannot do today, and why it matters for anyone who touches a deed.