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Q Terms in Land Surveying

Q Terms in Land Surveying

Q Terms

QCD (Land Status Records)Ā  ā€“ Quitclaim deed.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QS (Land Status Records)Ā  ā€“ Quicksilver.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUADRANGLE MAPĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā  ā€“ A map of a four sided figure bounded by parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude. See
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  STANDARD QUADRANGLE MAP* and MAP SERIES*.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUALIFIED (as a witness)Ā  ā€“ Persons who are accepted by the court as being professionally skilled and
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  knowledgeable in a particular field of study or science, as surveying. See WITNESS and EXPERT.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUANTITY GRANTĀ Ā Ā Ā  ā€“ A grant in connection with which the Congress specifies only the number of acres or the
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  general type of public lands which are granted and which the grantee will secure by making selections from
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  available public lands. See GRANT IN PLACE, INDEMNITY LANDS and PLACE LANDS.

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUARTER-QUARTER SECTION CORNERĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  ā€“ See SIXTEENTH SECTION CORNER.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUARTER-SECTION CORNERĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  ā€“ A corner at an extremity of a boundary of a quarter section. Written as ļæ½ section
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  corner, not as one fourth section corner.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUARTER SECTIONĀ Ā Ā Ā  ā€“ One-fourth of a section, containing 160 acres more or less. See SECTION, QUARTER.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUASIĀ  ā€“ As if. Almost as if it were. Seen often in terms such asĀ  ā€œquasi-legalā€Ā  orĀ  ā€œquasi-judicial.ā€
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUIET TITLEĀ Ā  ā€“ In the legal proceeding calledĀ  ā€œaction to quiet title,ā€Ā  the wordĀ  ā€œquietā€Ā  means to pacify; to render
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  secure or unassailable by the removal of unsettling causes or disputes. Under this proceeding, the plaintiffā€™s title to
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  land is established by bringing into court an adverse claimant and there compelling him either to establish his claim
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  or be forever estopped from asserting it. See ESTOPPEL.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  QUITCLAIM DEEDĀ Ā Ā Ā  ā€“ A deed in the nature of a release containing words of conveyance as well as release. It conveys
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  any interest the maker may have in the property described without any representations or liability of any kind as to
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  title conveyed or encumbrances that may exist thereon. A patent from the Government is a quitclaim deed.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Q.V.Ā  ā€“ An abbreviation ofĀ  ā€œquod vide,ā€Ā  used to refer a reader to the word, chapter etc., the name of which it
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  immediately follows. Quod vide means which see.

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