A traditional method of describing real estate parcels in a legal document. Metes refers to the specific distances and angles of the boundary lines, while bounds refers to the physical monuments or adjoining properties that constrain them. The description traces the perimeter of the tract in sequence, starting and ending at a designated point of beginning.
Heard on the job
I have to retrace a messy metes and bounds description that calls for an old oak tree that died thirty years ago.