2. Verb. (third-person singular of mete) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metes
1. mete [v] - See also: mete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metes
Literary usage of Metes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Law of Real Property by Francis Hilliard (1869)
"IT is said, that dower must be assigned by the sheriff by metes and bounds, or
in certain closes by name, and that any other assignment is void. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, as Respects Property: Partly by John Edward Bright, b, Roper Stote Donnison Roper, Edward Jacob (1849)
"concluding, as it is to be inferred, that the delivery was made by metes and
bounds of such of the particulars as were capable of it. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"metes and bounds survey of private claims. Rules-metes and bounds-Re- surveys.
Example of dependent resurvey. 125. Fractional township-Subdivision from ..."
4. The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of by Francis Joseph Troubat, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, William Worthington Haly, Asa Israel Fish (1867)
"So a levy on the undivided moiety when defendant owns the whole will be set aside
on his application.5 property by metes and bounds, as set forth in the ..."
5. The Law of Operations Preliminary to Construction in Engineering and by John Cassan Wait (1900)
"More or Less " when Land is Described by metes and Bounds.— When the boundaries
are defined by metes and bounds the grant will not be enlarged by the words ..."
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