Legal Definition and Related Resources of Course

The term as used in land surveying, denotes the direction of a line with reference to a meridian.

The direction of a line with reference to a meridian. Where there are no monuments, the land must be bounded by the courses and distances mentioned in the patent or deed. 4 Wheat. (U.S.) 444; 3 Pet. (U.S.) 96; 3 Murph. (N. C.) 82; 2 Har. & J. (Md.) 267; 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 254. When the lines are actually marked, they must be adhered to, though they vary from the course mentioned in the deeds. 2 Overt. (Tenn.) 304; 7 Wheat. (U.S.) 7. See 3 Call (Va.) 239; 7 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 333. See “Boundary.”

noun

• act
• act of pursuing
• action
• activity
• advance
• approach
• arrangment
• attack
• campaign
• completion
• conduct
• customary manner of procedure
• delivery
• design
• direction
• effectuation
• effort
• employment
• endeavor
• evolution
• execution
• exercitation
• furtherance
• handling
• implementation
• interaction
• iter
• line of action
• line of conduct
• management
• manner
• measures
• method
• mode
• mode of management
• mode of procedure
• modus operandi
• motion
• movement
• operation
• order
• particular manner of proceeding
• performance
• perpetration
• plan
• policy
• positive action
• practice
• praxis
• prescribed system
• procedure
• process
• program
• pursuance
• pursuit
• road
• route
• scheme
• succession of acts
• system Associated Concepts: arising out of and in course of employment
• course of business
• course of conduct
• course of dealings
• course of employment
• courses and distances
• direct course
• general course
• water courseforeign phrases: In dubio
• pars mitior est sequenda
• In doubt

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