Reiland v. Patrick Thomas Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• deed “must furnish within itself, or by reference to some other existing writing, the means or data by which the land to be conveyed may be identified with reasonable certainty”
• right of first refusal contained an inadequate property description, and extrinsic evidence supplying metes and bounds based on subsequent survey was inadmissible to aid the description because the original document contained no reference to the survey
• legal description must contain information regarding size, shape, and boundaries

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).