I agree with you, Judy. I know of one major title insurance company that absolutely prohibits their abstractors from re-typing the legal descriptions for fear that error and omissions may creep in.

When I was abstracting I have run into conflicts of legal descriptions contained in deeds within the chain of title. We always reviewed all of the deeds in the chain for sufficiency and legal descriptions.We normally brought the conflicts to the attention of the client, provided them with copies of the problematic deeds and instead of giving them a legal description noted that a new legal description may need to be created pending their review of the conflicting deeds.

I remember performing a title search several years ago for the sale of a condo unit. Approximately 20 years earlier someone had mistakenly placed the wrong condo unit number in a deed in the chain of title. No  one had caught the mistake in the following 20 years. Fortunately the Seller from 20 years earlier was still alive and living in the area. The closing attorney was able to have her sign a corrective deed with which the title insuance company was satisfied once it was recorded..