Conflicts in Law Division

A. West 50 feet is strip of land 50 feet wide measured at right angles to the west line of the lot.

B. West 50 feet measured along the north line of the lot is a strip between parallel lines, the distance between said lines being measured on the north line of the lot.

C. West 50 feet front and rear is a strip of variable width, having a frontage of 50 feet and a width of 50 feet along the opposite or rear line of the lot.

Any one of the above descriptions is valid but no one may be accepted as meaning any other except in the case of a rectangular lot, and then only by experienced persons.

The perfect description for dividing a lot of any shape into two parcels without possibility of conflict consists of a description of the dividing line extending across the lot with a statement that the portion of the lot described lies easterly (westerly, southerly, northerly, as the case may be) of said dividing line.