What is the legal description for property?
A. The legal description for a piece of real estate is the precise description of that property contained in the public records and is derived over time through the chain of title. It is the description used for transferring the property to another. The legal description is not the street address and is not the abbreviated form of description used on the real estate tax bill for the property. A deed preparer should always use the legal description exactly as it appears in the prior deed for the property unless the property to be transferred is only a portion of or is otherwise different from the property as described in that prior deed.
The legal description for a piece of real estate is the precise description of that property contained in the public records and is derived over time through the chain of title. It is the description used for transferring the property to another. The legal description is not the street address and is not the abbreviated form of description used on the real estate tax bill for the property. A deed preparer should always use the legal description exactly as it appears in the prior deed for the property unless the property to be transferred is only a portion of or is otherwise different from the property as described in that prior deed. Must a deed be recorded? What governmental agency handles recording of deeds? To be legally valid, the deed is not required to be recorded although it is very risky not to do so. If the deed is not recorded, the Grantee’s name (and rights) appear nowhere in the chain of title found in the public records of the county. Other parties may take actions or fail
