locative call vs descriptive call
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Definitions from Case Law
From 33 U.S. 75 - Reuben Garnett et al. v. Henry Jenkins et al. · 1834Most cited · 9 citing opinions
The calls for Bryant's station and North Elkhorn, and the distance to the seventh big fork, are descriptive, and were designed to lead the inquirer to the locative or special call; which was intended to show, with certainty, the land covered by the entry... It is a well settled principle, that if the essential call of an entry be uncertain as to the land covered by the warrant, and there are no other calls which control the special call, the entry cannot be sustained.