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Eddie said, The origins of the word date to before 900 AD (ME, mot(e), meeting or assembly); "moot," therefore, is etymologically connected to the word "meet." (Thanks, friend.  ) This got me to thinking. Kentucky is laid out according to the metes and bounds system. My geology teacher did not go into why it is called that--he just wanted us to learn the name. But it makes sense to me that you could say, "XYZ property is bordered (bound) by Stinking Creek (there really is one so named) on the east", for ex. Could metes be a corruption of meets? As in, "ABC property ends where Beargrass Creek meets the Ohio River"?
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Dear Jackie: the relationship of words "mete" and "meet" is rather complex. But they all go back to a word meaning to measure.and leave a marker. So complicated I got discouraged from trying to tie it together in a reply.
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There is also the expression, mete it out, where it is a verb, mete, meted, meting, which is the most prevalent usage today.
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Thanks, Sweet WO'N, you reminded me of something I meant to ask: can there be a mete?
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Metes and Bounds -- Description of land by boundary lines, with their terminal points and angles. Originally metes referred to distance, bounds to direction; contemporarily, the words have no individual meaning of practical significance. http://westerndivision.ctt.com/sistersites/santa_barbara/terms.htm#MEdit: In states that have been laid out by government survey into sections and townships, land-parcels can be described on the basis of those units; for example: "the south 200 feet of the east half or the north-east quarter" of section thus-and-so. This is refered to as the government survey system or, more technically, the cadastral system. Irregular tracts will however require a metes and bounds description (or a description by reference to a plat or may depicting the dimensions and position of various tracts).
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Kentucky is laid out according to the metes and bounds system.Does this mean that land is meted out to bounders? I'm sure Kentucky has a few. Why else would "Because he needed killin' " be a valid legal defence? 
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something I meant to ask: can there be a mete?Yes, per bartleby http://www.bartleby.com/61/6/M0250600.html: A boundary line; a limit
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Irregular tracts will however require a metes and bounds description
This system is discouraged (where alternatives are available), because it is the most subject to potential surveyor-error in preparing the description of the parcel's metes and bounds. A minor slip can cause the description to be inaccurate, or even nonsensical, leading to nasty real-estate litigation.
Hence the saying, "One man's mete is another man's poison."
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Dear Keiva: I believe that the mete is a single point whose coordinates have been determined. A pair of metes are needed to determing a line, which is the boundary, I believe.
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I believe that the mete is a single point whose coordinates have been determined. A pair of metes are needed to determing a line, which is the boundary, I believe.
That's the way I understand it, too, Dr. Bill. Historic District boundaries are usually given in metes and bounds fashion. The tricky part is establishing a 1st point that is unchangeable -- can't use property lines or roads, and even buildings can move or be demolished. Usually it is related to a major building, the loss of which would destroy the integrity of the district anyway.
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