Run a QA process for writing metes-and-bounds legal descriptions

Steps

1. Verify the description begins at a clearly tied Point of Beginning (POB) referenced to a found or established monument, with a defensible tie to record evidence (adjoiner deeds, prior plats, or PLSS corners as applicable).
2. Check mathematical closure: trace every bearing and distance call in sequence and confirm the final course returns exactly to the POB within your state's/firm's precision tolerance — an unclosed description is defective.
3. Cross-check every call against the field survey data and against adjoiner/record deeds to catch gaps, overlaps, or ambiguous monument calls (e.g., a call to a monument that no longer exists without a fallback bearing/distance).
4. Have a second qualified reviewer (not the original drafter) independently redraft or plot the description from scratch and compare the resulting plotted parcel to the intended boundary before it goes out under seal.
5. Confirm area computation, easement/exception language, and any curve data (radius, delta, chord) are internally consistent with the plat, then retain the closure calculations and review notes in the project file.