Call

In American land law. The requirement of a natural object, as a tree or stream, to correspond with a description or map 'in a survey, patent or grant of land; the designation of a natural object as a landmark or boundary in patents, grants and surveys. Thus, a survey is said to " call for, as the place of beginning, a black oak on the state line."

2 Binn€y*s JR. 169. 2 Penn, St. JR. 44.

A grant is said to " call for two small chestnut oaks," " to call for a comer," &c. 3 Peters' B. 92'--9S. "The grant calls to be on the waters of Tygart valley." Marshall, C. J., Id. ibid. These are otherwise termed locative calls, (q. v.) The location. and boundaries of a tract, as surveyed, must be according to the calls of the grant.

See 5 Howard's E. 10. 10 Wheaton's B. 464.