19-01.Metes and bounds.
When any owner of a government subdivision or a platted tract or lot divides that land into parcels for the purpose of transfer that cannot be described except by metes and bounds, the parcels of land so divided must be platted before any instrument of transfer can be recorded. Real property descriptions using metes and bounds may be recorded only if a previous conveyance by the same metes and bounds has been made and recorded.