Utah Courts - REAL PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRIPTION

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REAL PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRIPTION

Each piece of real property has a legal description. This legal description is found on your deed. Secondary sources might be your mortgage or appraisal documents or the County Recorder's Office in the county where the real property is located. You must include the legal description for each piece of real property you are dividing.

There are typically two types of Legal Descriptions:

Example of legal description using lot, block or subdivision, and plat:

Lot 1, Forest Hills Subdivision, Plat 24 as recorded in the Salt Lake County Recorders Office.

Example of legal description using metes and bounds:

Beginning at the survey marker on the southwest corner of 4th Avenue and K Street, go 50' north, thence 150' east, thence 50' south, thence 150' west to the point of beginning.

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