Section 5-451. Tentative decree; preparation, contents and filing of  


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  • a. The
      court  shall  instruct  the  corporation  counsel  to  prepare   tabular
      abstracts  of its estimated damage due to the closing, and of the damage
      due to the acquisition by the city of fee title to the land  within  the
      closed  street and of the value of the city's interest in the respective
      parcels of the closed street. The tabular abstract of  estimated  damage
      due to the closing of the street shall set forth:
        1.  The  amount  of  loss  and damage to each and every parcel of real
      property affected by the proceeding.
        2. The name of the respective owners of each and every parcel of  real
      property affected thereby, as far as the same shall be ascertained.
        3.  A  sufficient designation or description of the respective lots or
      parcels of real property damaged by the closing of the street or by  the
      acquisition  of  the  fee  title  to  the lands in the closed street, by
      reference to numbers  of  the  respective  parcels  indicated  upon  the
      surveys, diagrams, maps or plans which shall be attached to such tabular
      abstracts.
        b. The court shall appraise and determine and separately set forth and
      state  in  the  tabular  abstract,  the  value  of  the right, title and
      interest of the city in and to the fee of the  land  within  the  closed
      street.
        c.  Such  tabular  abstracts shall be signed by the justice trying the
      proceedings and filed with the clerk of each county in which the  closed
      street  and the real property abutting thereon or any part of either may
      be situated and when so filed shall constitute the tentative  decree  of
      the  court  as  to  awards for damages and as to the value of the city's
      interest in the respective parcels of land within the closed street.