# Needing help with terminology
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517
**Category:** Fisher County, TX
**Created:** [January 26, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517 "2023-01-26T18:01:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Judy\_Cambern](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Judy_Cambern)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517/1 "2023-01-26T18:01:26Z")
Can anyone tell me in a legal description of a tract of land what these terms vrs, NBL, WBL, and BBL represent? For example: 866.6 vrs with the NBL of a Sec number, or: .1043 vrs with the WBL, and then 866.6 vrs with the BBL? I thought the NBL might mean North Boundary Line of the Sec. and WBL the West Boundary Line, but the BBL??? I could be wrong on all of it.
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### Author:  [@TennisDaze](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/TennisDaze)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517/2 "2023-01-26T18:20:16Z")
Many tracts have metes and bounds descriptions with a starting point and then moving a specified distance in a particular direction. At a guess, without seeing the entire description, vrs means varas. A Texas vara is 33.3 inches.
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### Author:  [@Judy\_Cambern](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Judy_Cambern)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517/3 "2023-01-26T18:36:05Z")
Thank you for that explanation. Do you have an answer for NBL, WBL, or BBL?
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### Author:  [@TennisDaze](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/TennisDaze)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517/4 "2023-01-26T21:11:28Z")
You would have to interpret based on the total language of the description, rather than portions. You should look at prior deeds to make sure that there has not been a change in the language by abbreviating more fully written words. If your interpretation is correct about “north boundary line,” then perhaps the BBL is a typing error where it should be EBL or SBL. And are all the boundaries relating to section lines, or some relating to an adjacent tract or farm?
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### Author:  [@PeteR](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/PeteR)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517/5 "2023-01-26T22:10:22Z")
@Judy_Cambern, as @TennisDaze notes, I think you are on the right track. NBL and WBL are standard surveyor abbreviations for North Boundary Line and West Boundary Line. My guess would also be that the BBL is supposed to be EBL or SBL but that it is a typo or transcription error. I always find it helpful to draw it out on a map of the area, and then the lines and landmarks often make more sense.
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### Author:  [@Judy\_Cambern](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Judy_Cambern)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517/6 "2023-01-27T00:18:25Z")
Thank you, PeteR. The copy sent to me was very poor, and what you replied about being an E instead of B makes perfect sense. I believe that makes it possible for me to sketch out.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/needing-help-with-terminology/69517/7 "2023-04-26T18:01:55Z")
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