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State Land States
Practical Law Glossary Item 1-507-1548 (Approx. 2 pages)
Glossary
State Land States
Before the original 13 colonies (and certain other territories) became US territories, the land was surveyed, controlled and distributed by the then-governing entities, such as the colonial governments.
The real estate in state land states is typically identified by legal descriptions with metes and bounds descriptions.
The state land states are:
- Connecticut.
- Delaware.
- Georgia.
- Kentucky.
- Maine.
- Maryland.
- Massachusetts.
- New Jersey.
- New York.
- North Carolina.
- Pennsylvania.
- Rhode Island.
- South Carolina.
- Tennessee.
- Texas.
- Vermont.
- Virginia.
- West Virginia.