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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Where there are both a particular description, as by metes and bounds, or by courses and distances, and a general descriptive designation, the latter, as a rule, yields to the former.(11 "Corpus Juris Secundum", pp. 563-564)  1, record 1, English, - particular%20description

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

However, the rule is merely one of construction, applied in order to arrive at the intention of the grantor, and in all cases the intention of the parties as gathered from a consideration of the whole instrument is of controlling authority; and such construction will be given it as will, if possible, satisfy each of the several descriptions. Accordingly, the general rule first stated has no application where the general description can be harmonized with the particular ... (11 "Corpus Juris Secundum", pp. 563-564)  1, record 1, English, - particular%20description

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

description particulière : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 1, French, - description%20particuli%C3%A8re

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[A] description by metes and bounds(or courses and distances)-bounds being the imaginary boundary lines(whether delineated by improvements or occupations or not) of the parcel and metes being the length and direction of each bound together with the area of the parcel; such a description hopefully will commence with a readily identifiable starting point and proceed by metes and bounds around the parcel and back to the starting point; sometimes it will also include a reference to the surveyor(if any) who measured the parcel.(Griffith, 1975, p. 2).  1, record 2, English, - description%20by%20metes%20and%20bounds

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Les juristes emploieront aujourd'hui l'expression «description technique», terme de métier retenu par les arpenteurs-géomètres pour rendre «description by metes and bounds».  1, record 2, French, - description%20technique

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 OBS

description technique; description par mesurage et délimitation : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 2, French, - description%20technique

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[A] description by plan(or plat), which is a graphical representation of the parcel usually drawn to scale and possibly containing surveyed data; the plan can form part of the deed or can be incorporated in the deed by reference to a numbered parcel depicted in the plan which is itself placed on public record in another place-in either case the plan can be in addition to a metes and bounds description in the deed.(Griffith, 1975, p. 2).  1, record 3, English, - description%20by%20plan

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

description par renvoi à plan : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 3, French, - description%20par%20renvoi%20%C3%A0%20plan

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish