Hey, is Franklin County anywhere near Moore County in Tennessee? Because as a Tennesse Squire I am an ‘unrecorded holder of Plot No. f38235 in ‘The Hollow’ at Lynchburg, Tennessee (Pop. 361)’
No size is specified. I was deeded the land in 1991, and still recieve regular updates as to its condition.
The fact that Franklin County, Tennessee has not been sending you tax bills over the years should may indicate to you whether your ownership is on record with the county. Obviously, someone else has been paying the taxes on that one acre of land that was allegedly parcelled into one-inch squares, and it has not been the the “owners” of those one-inch squares.
If people like you ever had legal claim of those teeny plots, the fact that (1) the ownership is not on record with the county, and (2) someone else has been paying taxes for 47 years, would tend to create what is known as “adverse possession”.
I suppose a meaningful plat would be one that can be used to enforce a legal claim or resolve a dispute over boundries.
I don’t suppose there will be too many disputes over a 1" square lot so the question is largely moot.
However, the laser survey sites I checked give accuracies of distance measurement on the order of 10 cm or about 4" for that method.
Short of using the highly precise methods used to survey on Manhattan Island where land is valued by the front foot, I see no way of physically locating the boundries a 1" square lot.
No matter how many pieces of paper and legal sounding documents are filed, such a deed is in a practical sense without any merit whatever, in my not-so-humble opinion.
Engr - Former surveyor.
Is there a term of art in surveying that is accepted to mean “a survey that can be used to enforce a legal claim or resolve a dispute over boundaries?” I don’t think “meaningful” is it. I assume that when the surveyor puts his or her seal on the instrument, they are validating to that degree.
The deeds y’all are discussing are known as “Novelty Deeds”. These type of deeds are not recordable, cannot be sold as an investment, and the property cannot be built upon by their owners. If you don’t believe me, maybe you could hire a land surveyor for up to $20,000. or more to find your inch of land, and then hire a fence company to install a fence around your property. So, please, quit asking stupid questions and making stupid remarks…Some of you appear to be licensed real estate agents that don’t know a valid deed from a souvenir. All you have is a piece of paper with writing on it that you can frame and brag about and that’s it.
I bet you’re a lot of fun at dinner parties. WTF, dude?
Since this one is eight years old, and nothing new was added in the zombie reopening, let’s shut 'er down.
samclem Moderator, GQ