Legal descriptions
Monument
A fixed marker — natural or placed — used as a reference point in a description
An iron pin, a stone, a large tree, the centre line of a road. Metes and bounds descriptions lean on monuments, and where a call to a monument conflicts with a stated distance, the monument generally controls, because it is the thing that was actually there.
How the exam asks about it
The priority rule — monuments over courses and distances — is the examinable point.
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