The boundaries are described in a running prose style, working around the parcel in sequence, from a point of beginning, returning to the same point compare with the oral ritual of beating the bounds. Typically the system uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land. While still in hand-me-down use, this system has been largely overtaken in the past few centuries by newer systems such as rectangular (government survey) and lot and block (recorded plat). By custom, it was applied in the original Thirteen Colonies that became the United States and in many other land jurisdictions based on English common law, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, India and Bangladesh. The system is also used in the Canadian province of Ontario, and throughout Canada for the description of electoral districts. The system has been used in England for many centuries and is still used there in the definition of general boundaries. Metes and bounds is a system or method of describing land, real property (in contrast to personal property) or real estate. ( May 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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