Metes refers to a boundary defined by the measurement of each straight run, specified by a distance between the terminal points, and an orientation or direction.

At the time the description is compiled, it may have been marked on the ground with permanent monuments placed where there were no suitable natural monuments. It may include references to other adjoining parcels (and their owners), and it, in turn, could also be referred to in later surveys. 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. Prohibited: The park is out of bounds to students.Method of describing land in deeds and other records

beyond the official boundaries, prescribed limits, or restricted area: The ball bounced out of bounds.

greatest lower bound, least upper bound, lower bound, upper bound.

a number greater than or equal to, or less than or equal to, all the numbers in a given set.

something that limits, confines, or restrains.

Usually, bounds. limit or boundary: the bounds of space and time within the bounds of his estate within the bounds of reason.

See corresponding entry in Unabridged See skip 1.

Middle French bond a leap, bondir to leap, origin, originally resound Vulgar Latin *bombitīre for *bombitāre to buzz, whiz (Latin bomb( us) (see bomb) + -it- intensive suffix + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix).

Heading toward'': east + -bound → eastbound (= going to the east heading toward the east).

Use -bound after words of direction to indicate 'going to.

Use -bound after certain nouns to mean 'stuck or surrounded by (something)'': snow + -bound → snowbound (= stuck in and surrounded by snow).

Heading for: The train is bound for Denver. Prohibited: īound 4 /baʊnd/ USA pronunciation adj.

beyond or past official boundaries: threw the ball out of bounds.

in bounds, within official boundaries: They ruled that the player was in bounds.

to limit by or as if by bounds: Spain is bounded on the east by Portugal.

limit or boundary: within the bounds of reason.

Jump: With a great bound, the dog flew out the window. īounce: He started to fall, but then bounded off the wall as he went down. Idiomsdevoted or attached to: I've been bound up in this project for years.īound 2 /baʊnd/ USA pronunciation v.Idiomsvery closely connected with: Her future is too bound up with his career.Sure: He's so fast he's bound to win the race.

I felt bound to tell you what they say about you. Law under an obligation: Even the police are bound by laws.secured within a cover, as a book: a bound book.

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