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Tax Sale Forum => General => Topic started by: David1010 on March 04, 2013, 10:12:28 PM

Title: Ancient forms of Measurement
Post by: David1010 on March 04, 2013, 10:12:28 PM

Came across this legal description of a parcel today. Last time I saw this parcel listed I had no idea what they were talking.  After having skulked around here for awhile I actually understand (more or less) what they're describing.  There was a thread awhile back that explained some of the variants of measuring land, maybe if someone can find that thread they can reference it here or put a sticky on it. Thanks for the info.

 ALLOWANCE OF ONE CHAIN IN PERPENDICULAR WIDTH FOR A RD ON THE BANKS OF THE CHE-PA-KONGE RIVER AND ALSO ON THE SHORE OF THE GEORGIAN BAY; CARLING

Title: Re: Ancient forms of Measurement
Post by: ErnestBidder on March 05, 2013, 01:14:52 AM

Dave2:

  See http://taxsaleproperty.org/forum/index.php?topic=2035.15
page 2, partway down. BTW, this site has a nice search feature: all I did was go back tho the main forum page, top right, enter chain in the white box, and hit search and presto bango!

  Cheers to all the quiet boys & girls over the last few weeks, and an applaud to Dave2 for being the first private poster this week.

Title: Re: Ancient forms of Measurement
Post by: ErnestBidder on March 05, 2013, 01:30:14 AM

  OOPS!

  Gave an applaud to ChrisCentral cause I made a mistake: he was actually first to post today.

  Credit where credit is due.

  Cheers again.

Title: Re: Ancient forms of Measurement
Post by: David1010 on March 05, 2013, 02:40:23 PM

Thanks for the topic link.

I have used the search facility before, but haven't found it very effective.  Today I put in "township" and searched, you'd think I'd get 1000s of hits, it returns:

taxsaleproperty.org > Tax Sale Forum > Questions and Answers > Search > Search Results
Pages: [1]

(No results found)

Pages: [1]

Alternatively going to the top most level of the forums, doing a search, appears to return every thread and checking the content of the first several hits, didn't contain the keyword (relevance of each was below 68% and down)

Gotten spoiled using Google. In Google using: site:taxsaleproperty.org township
Returns a stupid number of hits with the keyword highlighted.

http://taxsaleproperty.org/forum/index.php?topic=2035.msg8891#msg8891

Gets you to the relevant part of the thread containing mesurements.

Thanks again