THoly Cow, post: 395794, member: 50 wrote: [USER=2486]@aliquot[/USER]The private owners can do as they like so long as it only involves private owners...

Dane Mince, post: 395651, member: 296 wrote: but I can tell you this the plastic stake and rebar are NOT ORIGINAL CORNERS. Evidence may prove them to ...

FrancisH, post: 395498, member: 10211 wrote: the way I see it, as surveyors, our work is to measure accurately the metes and bounds of certain lot par...

Holy Cow, post: 395558, member: 50 wrote: Then when they become fully private lands you can pretty much toss out the cookbook unless specifically forc...

MightyMoe, post: 395222, member: 700 wrote: The BLM will not change areas during a resurvey for patented lands. Right, just like a private surveyor w...

MightyMoe, post: 395161, member: 700 wrote: From 43 US code 752 (1805 establishing the PLSS)Second. The boundary lines, actually run and marked in the...

FrancisH, post: 395131, member: 10211 wrote: Let me get this, so if a survey was done in 1800s by someone who calls himself a surveyor but really was ...

Good find.It all depends where you work and what kind of work you do. For some finding original stones is a very common experience, others will go th...

TJim in AZ, post: 394667, member: 249 wrote: Most interesting! I was unaware that this ever occurred anywhere. Certainly have not seen it here. Perhap...

It sounds like the Title company is right for a change. Why would you show an easement on your plat that has been estiguished by merger of title?

Although the term averse possession is used, this is not averse possession as we think about it under state law. The clamient had express pemission to...

If your precision is actually to to the nearest mm then it should be reported to the nearest mm, but why would you do a boundary survey to that precis...

Jim in AZ, post: 393909, member: 249 wrote: I see it is quite frustrating to live in a non-recording state... As someone who is licenced in both reco...

voidintheabyss, post: 393769, member: 11972 wrote: That doesn't strike me as intuitive.Surely the date on the survey and the "prepared for" remarks me...

There is no way to come to a conclusion without seeing all the related documents, but how can the surveyor claim to have done all the neccisiary resea...

Rich., post: 393534, member: 10450 wrote: Thanks for the reply. They do have a grant to the lands under water, that I do know and was shown on said...

I've never used a scale. A ruler works for all scales, even if the the plat has been shrunk or enlarged.

Holy Cow, post: 393162, member: 50 wrote: Nearly all of my clients only care about ground distances and areas, so that's all I really care about, too....

Rich., post: 392501, member: 10450 wrote: Very true. Unfortunately I feel many attorneys think we are changing the answer if the numbers change on a ...

I think all those classes are usefull, but to be a good education for a land surveyor you would need to pile on some more legal/boundary classes.