Legal Descriptions

A legal description is the written language by which real property is identified and conveyed.

Legal descriptions are important because an imprecise or legally deficient description can cloud title, derail closings, and create lasting boundary disputes that outlive the original transaction. Allen & Company’s licensed surveyors draft metes-and-bounds descriptions, lot/block references, and easement legal descriptions for deeds, dedication instruments, access agreements, conservation easements, and other conveyance documents to include:

• Subdivision Name: Whenever the property is part of a recorded subdivision
• Lot and Block Number (when applicable)
• Plat Book and Page Number: Establishing where the subdivision plat is recorded
• Section, Township, and Range: Following the government’s survey system
• Point of Beginning: Particularly in metes-and-bounds descriptions
• Bearings and Distances: Describing the property boundary lines
• Monuments or Reference Points: Used to identify corners or boundaries
• County and State: Where the property is located
• Easements, Rights-of-Way, or Exceptions: (when included in the recorded description)

In Florida, recorded plats must include section, township, range, and a detailed land description to determine the starting point and boundary. Every description is grounded in field survey data and reconciled with public records to ensure it is unambiguous, geometrically closed, and recordable.

With nearly 40 years of experience in Florida’s public records and property law landscape, Allen & Company produces legal descriptions that hold up under title review, legal scrutiny, and future survey work.