210.3 - LAND MEASURE.
210.3 LAND MEASURE.
The acre for land measure shall be measured horizontally and
contain ten square chains and be equivalent in area to a rectangle
sixteen rods in length and ten rods in breadth, six hundred and forty
such acres being contained in a square mile. The chain for measuring
land shall be twenty-two yards long, and be divided into one hundred
equal parts, called links. Section History: Early Form
[C73, § 2041; C97, § 3011; S13, § 3009-d; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §
3229; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 210.3]