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.
 
 

ATTRIBUTES:

Legal Area Description ID

The Legal Area Description ID is the primary key, which identifies each record in the Legal Description entity.

Domain: numeric
 
 

Geopolitical ID

The Geopolitical ID is a foreign key, which points to an occurrence in a geopolitical entity, where information on the geopolitical area can be found.

Domain: numeric
 
 

LAD-Source Agent

The Source Agent is the individual or organization, which determined the legal area description.

Domain: Text
 
 

LAD-Source Index

The Source Index is the value assigned by a Source Agent to a legal area description to identify the source from which the legal area description originated.

Domain: Text
 
 

LAD-Source Type

Source Type describes a family of documents, files, images, or other which generally conform to the same specifications or having some common unifying characteristic. The domain for Source Type is in Appendix 4.

Domain: text, See Appendix 4
 
 

LAD-Source Date

The Source Date is the date of the legal area description.

Domain: Date

Links to the Course Sections and Modules: [Quick Reference] [Introduction] [Section 1: Purpose and Benefits of the Cadastral Data Content Standard] [Section 2: How the Standard Was Developed] [Section 3: Other Standards and Related Activities] [Section 4: Data Modeling Techniques, Rules and Diagram Conventions] [Section 5: Crosswalks, Translations, and Examples] [Section 6: Understanding Compliance with the Standard] [Section 7: Maintenance of the Standard] [Section 8: User and Technical Support] [County Recorder Module] [GIS Specialist Module] [Surveyor Module] [Glossary]