A description defining land boundaries written for conveyance or other purposes shall be complete, providing definite and unequivocal identification of the property lines or boundaries. The description shall be sufficient to enable the description to be platted and retraced. The description shall commence at or relate to a physically monumented corner or boundary line of record.
 1. If the land is located in a recorded subdivision, the description shall contain the number or other description of the lot, block, or other part of the subdivision, or shall describe the land by reference to a known corner of the lot, block, or other part.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 355.9

  • Corner: means a point at which two or more lines meet. See Iowa Code 355.1
  • Government lot: means a tract, within a section, which is normally described by a lot number as represented and identified on the township plat of the United States public land survey system. See Iowa Code 355.1
  • Lot: means a tract of land, generally a subdivision of a city or town block, represented and identified as a lot on a recorded plat. See Iowa Code 355.1
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Subdivision: means a tract of land divided into three or more lots. See Iowa Code 355.1
  • United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. If the land is not located in a recorded subdivision, the description shall identify the section, township, range, and county, and shall describe the land by reference to government lot, by quarter-quarter section, by quarter section, or by metes and bounds commencing with a corner marked and established in the United States public land survey system.
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