Key pieces of information found in Crown grant documents include:
- Government file number, which enables access to files containing information on the original Crown grant application
- Crown grant number
- Date grant was created
- Name, address, occupation and tenant terms of who the land was granted to
- Purchase price, or consideration paid
- Legal description of the land granted
- Statutory provisions that the granted land is subject to
- May contain express words for limitation of estate, such as "access by water only"
- Express words for any reserves, exceptions or prior rights of way, for example, timber exclusion, or lands crossed by statutory right of way
- Normally contains a "tracing" - the official plan confirmed by the Surveyor General showing the area granted and surrounding cadastral information