Terrain is almost never these nice rectangular portions of land... so lets embrace the weird and funky curves of nature and enable us define our freehold boundaries through laying claim markers or stakes.
I believe the following graphics illustrates my point.
What we need to break free from:

or

What we could have:

As long as the total contiguous area isn't greater than a set threshold for that claim type, all should be fine right?
Thank you for listening to my TED talk.