Brad is right, Record of Surveys do not impart constructive notice because they are not in the chain of title.
If a survey is referenced in a deed then it would impart constructive for that parcel but not for the adjoiners unless they call for that survey too.
Most of the screwed up stuff around here is from reusing and recopying old home-spun
descriptions time after time. The idea of using one of those is a new deed is worse
than crazy.
http://archive.org/details/proceedingsannu00engigoog
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Ohio%20Society%20of%20Surveyors%20and%20Civil%20Engineers&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AOhio%20Society%20of%20Surveyors%20and%20Civil%20Engineers
Top billing until about 1900.
DDSM
So, 1900 must be when Civil Engineers started getting more intelligent and surveyors IQs started to drop.
Yes, sometimes the cure is more objectionable than the disease. That's why you have to appreciate the seller's position.
I agree that improvement of the description is good; but sometimes the improvements are what create the problem.
As neutral parties, we need to understand where both parties to the transactions are coming from.