fraction of section

fraction of section
A fraction of a section of land as laid out by the government survey, designated in words or figures, for example, "northeast quarter" or "NE4" Throughout those portions of the United States in which the government system of land surveys is used, initials of the points of the compass, followed by the figure "2" or the figure "4," are employed to describe fractional portions of a 640-acre section of land, the figure "4," written as above, meaning one quarter, and the figure "2," thus written, meaning one half; thus E2 NE4 sec. 10 means eighty acres comprising the east half of the northeast quarter of section 10. Power v Bowdle, 3 ND 107, 54 NW 404. See fractional section.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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