The box below illustrates in red the attribute from the Legal Area Description entity of the Cadastral Data Content Standard which corresponds with data commonly used by county recorders.

Legal Area Description - A Legal Area Description provides the structure for assembling the components of a single legal description into one. The components of the legal area description can be used to build legal descriptions based on areas. For example, a legal area description could be a lot in a subdivision and that lot may be contained in a Public Land Survey System area.
LAD Source Date - The Source Date is the date of the legal area description. Domain: Date.
LAD Source Date corresponds to the following data commonly
used by county recorders: date of survey (the survey being the source of
the information used to derive the legal area description).
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Table Of Contents - County Recorders and the Cadastral Data Content Standard
Links to the other Cadastral Courses:
Learning
The Cadastral Data Content Standard
Cadastral
Information For GIS Specialists
Surveyors
And The Cadastral Data Content Standard
Presented by the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, and
the Federal Geographic Data Committee Cadastral Subcommittee