Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location Seventh Edition

I always recommend that the student should start with a 1st, 2nd or 3rd edition before taking the plunge on the very latest edition. These early editions are cheap, maybe $10?. The latest editions have become bloated, IMO, and are best left to advanced students.   

They were coming out with a new edition every 3 years ± for awhile. I think it was a bit longer wait for the most recent edition. Nevertheless, there is always a new one just around the corner these days it seems. Amazon usually gives warning several months in advance of a new edition and there is no such warning currently.   

Don’t know about those two exact text books.

From my library I will say that the original 1st to 3rd editions are generally the best as they are generally written by the original author and have less people’s hands on them.

 My evidence and procedures for boundary location is a first edition.

 My boundary control and legal principles is a third edition.

 Both are solid books.

 I’ve also read newer versions of these books. The older ones are better imo.

 If this is for university assignments you generally want to stay within a version or 2 of the asked for text.

I own 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th editions of Evidence & Procedures, 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th of Boundary Control & Legal Principles, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th of Clark (Robillard was a coauthor beginning with the 5th).

I agree with Norman that later editions tend to have gotten bloated with content that neither significantly adds to or updates most principles contained in them.  More troubling is that as the edition numbers progress, the backup or source material for some of the principles has tended to drift away from solid case authority and more toward what Walt Robillard thinks or wishes the principles should be. 

My recommendation is if your simply looking for references that are solid on the principles to practice by, get the 2nd Edition of Evidence & Procedures, 2nd or 3rd of BCLP, 4th or 5th of Clark, and find a copy of Boundaries and Adjacent Properties by Skelton (published in 1930, somewhat hard to find, spendy to obtain but still solid on the principles).

@eapls2708 can I trouble you for a copy of a few pages sections from Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location 2nd and 5th editions?

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I own 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th editions of Evidence & Procedures,

I have the 2nd edition.  It's so full of typos and other mistakes that it's hard to read.  When I first got it I compiled several pages of goofs and sent them to the publisher.  I don't know if they did anything with them, but I hope the later editions got some improved editing.  (I hate to think what the 1st edition is like.)

Noting that Amazon's price for a 7th edition is $79.14 right now. 

@jim-frame If you could possibly share your errata, I for one would be interested in using it to correct my copy of the book.

Alas, the list was hand-written long before the digital age came to my house.  If I even kept a copy, I would have no idea where to find it.