Legal descriptions
Section
One square mile of land: 640 acres
The working unit of the rectangular survey system. Thirty-six sections make a township, and sections are subdivided into halves and quarters — a quarter section is 160 acres, a quarter of a quarter is 40.
How the exam asks about it
Compute a quarter description by multiplying the denominators and dividing 640 by the result: the NE¼ of the SW¼ is 640 ÷ 16 = 40 acres.
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