Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

You need to take it from the deed you received when you received title. It needs to match EXACTLY, word for word, comma for comma.

I agree with Mr. McCormick. A good place to start is with the deed you received when you bought/ acquired the property. Hopefully, that legal description is correct. If not, you have bigger problems on your hands.

California recorders' offices are prohibited by law to make images of recorded documents available on line. If you do not have your deed in your own files, you would have to order a copy, or better yet, go to the recorder's office yourself and have the clerks make you photocopies The following passage is cut-and-pasted from the Sonoma County Recorder's Web site:

"Recorded documents and maps are public records; they are available for public viewing in our offices at no cost, but California law prohibits the display of recorded documents on the internet. We store records dating from 1835 to 1979 in our office on microfilm; we store records from 1980 to the present as digital images on computer.

"The Sonoma County Clerk-Recorder-Assessor does offer an online Index of Official Public Records recorded from 1964 to the present. You can search this online index to locate documents that can be reviewed and purchased by visiting our office in Santa Rosa. Documents recorded prior to 1964 (going back to 1835) are not indexed online, but are indexed in handwritten volumes which can be examined in our office at no cost. We also have a cumulative map index in our office for subdivision maps, parcel maps, surveys and assessment districts.

"All recorded documents are indexed by the names of the principal parties. To locate a document in our indexes, you will need to know the name of at least one party and the approximate year the document was recorded."

I hope this is helpful.