Surveyors and real property attorneys alike are not paid by the land, we are paid by people.
Interesting http://www.boundarydisputelaw.com/2014/03/
Cheers,
Derek
The problem in my experience is the Surveyor is being called in because someone is being unreasonable.
"I want to prove a point to the neighbor" as if I'm a hammer, not a surveyor.
I like his comments, just have to overcome the culture of only calling when there is a problem. And surveyors need to be actually trained in the law beyond the intro beginner texts being used now. This means study of the primary sources for any given State.
In Louisiana, the state board of registration publishes a "Compendium of Federal and State Laws Related to Land Surveying." That's exactly what I use for a textbook in our Boundary Surveying course. (It's free in pdf files downloaded by my students.)
I make the students read the laws out loud in class and I then explain the legal concepts behind each law (when not obvious) as well as I explain the various esoteric terms used.
Cliff-
TU
Found it : http://www.lapels.com/docs/compendium/ls_comp_0909.pdf
(No fear tho', I'm still 'practicing' here !)
Cheers,
Derek
The boundary courses I took used Brown and the 1973 Manual.. I'm not saying that is wrong but that is just a beginning.
There really needs to be training in legal procedure, how legal decision making happens, not just what the law is. I've picked up some of it on my own but I'm nowhere near an expert.
The problem with boundary disputes is that there is already a problem before the surveyor arrives on the scene. Sombody is unhappy with where they think the boundary is and many times it is 2 somebodies....
Dave when are you coming out with the itermediate level textbook?
I've been thumbing through Skelton thinking about it.
I think an intermediate Boundary book needs to be State specific which kind of limits the market.
The Attorneys have Miller & Starr California Real Estate which is a treatise in 12 volumes (several feet of shelf space). That covers the entire breadth of real estate law, not just boundary. Skelton goes beyond boundary too, covering dedications, adverse possession and encroachments too. Skelton is interesting but I think pulling cases from all over the U.S. Especially in the establishment chapter limits the value somewhat, not to mention it is only current as of 1930.