In return, the seigneur had certain feudal rights over his tenants: to receive token rent payments from them, to require them to use his mill for grinding their grain, to demand various work services from them. It granted large acreages of land to seigneurs, who were expected to bring in tenants to settle and work the land. Long-Lot Survey The early French government tried to transplant a vestigial form of feudalism, the seigneurial system, to its possessions in Canada. If you fly over portions of the United States, surveyed with the metes and bounds system, the patterns on the ground are highly irregular and lack the geometric, rectangular patterns characteristic of the western parts of the country. For example, it might use a particular species of tree or distinctive rock outcropping.
Metes-and-bounds survey descriptions often use distinctive features as markers along the property boundary. Schematic example of a property described by a metes-and-bounds survey. Note that the compass directions are by convention listed as so many degrees east or west of north and south. To legally describe (survey) this land later, each property line segment was surveyed and its compass direction (bearing) and length recorded> This metes and bounds surveying produced land ownership maps like the property shown in the figure below. Parcels of land were described using key features of the landscape to describe the boundaries of the owned land. Does not take terrain into account.Ĥ Metes and Bounds In the original colonies, ownership of individual parcels of land was often established before the region was systematically surveyed. Pg Designed to facilitate the movement of non-indians across the farmlands of the U.S. 1 Rectangular survey System (Township and Rang System).
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