metes and bounds

White Fangの新しい生活地は暖かいサンタクララ、カリフォルニアの住宅街の様です。
Outside the household there was even more for White Fang to learn. The master's domain was wide and complex, yet it had its metes and bounds. The land itself ceased at the county road. Outside was the common domain of all gods -- the roads and streets. Then inside other fences were the particular domains of other gods. A myriad laws governed all these things and determined conduct; yet he did not know the speech of the gods, nor was there any way for him to learn save by experience.
godsはWhite Fangから見た人間の事を指しています。 "metes and bounds" は直ぐには思い出せませんでしたが、４年前(10/14/2011)に取り上げた表現です。 おさらいします。
・Wiktionary: (plural only)The limits of a piece of land as defined by reference to lines and/or points on the land.
・Oxford English Dictionary: (usually metes and bounds) chiefly historical: A boundary or boundary stone.