I'm here.
Went to 2 Jeff Lucas seminars Thursday and Friday at Orange Beach, Alabama. Topics were Retracement and the 2009 Manual and Boundary Law of Alabama, with a tie-in to Jeff's new book which is an in-depth study of the laws of Alabama pertaining to boundary. Both were good seminars. The 2009 version of the Manual looks like a good one, and offers some good measure of credence to what Jeff has been saying for years, namely that lost corners are an extremely rare entity and that the first private surveyor is "clothed in the garments of the original surveyor" (paraphrasing).
Stephen
Were the back pages cut out of the 2009 manual?
Maybe in Alabama, but not out here in the West in the wide open spaces where there is no evidence of the original corner location or where it even may have been. His statement that there are no lost corners is bogus.
I totally agree, there are plenty of lost corners, not EXTREMELY RARE, maybe extremely common. and the private surveyor is merely a retracing surveyor.
He maybe clothed like the original surveyor, but he Ain’t the ORIGINAL.
Still cracks me up you guys need a 'manual' to know how to survey...lol
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I'm curious, who sponsored those seminars?
Federal Lands....Case law.....Everyone should need a manual. Its no different then state laws/statutes/regulation/ That's your manual? What's the difference?
AZMYTH ROCKS
The Alabama professional society sponsored them.