Anytime I have talked to an attorney or a judge,?ÿ my opinion, or interpretation is why they want to talk to me.?ÿ

Area is probably what most land owners, and courts would expect, but then you still have to decide which line(s) to use to divide the areas.

@paden-cash Nice to hear about a trial court getting something right.?ÿ

Another possibility is 1/3 by area with several possible methods of determining the bearing of the weat boundary.?ÿ

Once you start dividing into fractions other than 1/2s and quarters, and dividing 1/2s, any standardisation goes out the window. The beauty of Jeffers...

@holy-cow Pretty typical. Pipeline and power transmission easments are often done in the same way. It's like bad GIS technicians were given licences ...

It happens a lot in more unpopulated areas where each private parcel covers many sections and most of the land is public.?ÿ

@flga-2 Do you have a link to the regulation? That sounds asinine.?ÿ

No reason to show the math solution, but what irks me is when the only information on a survey is "found rebar ,1/16th corner". Unless the found rebar...

@dmyhill There are a few places offering fingerprint services. The problem is Texas will only allow the fingerprints to be done by one specific compa...

@jonathan-cooper That's good news!

@holy-cow The record created by the person who set the rebar?ÿ may help explain why the last surveyor did what he did.?ÿ

I haven't used any field equipment in years, but Leica always made staking to a line ridiculously difficult.?ÿ

@jonathan-cooper Every local law enforcement office I contacted said no way. I will have to either hop on a plane or give up my Texas licence. This a...

Try living in another state that doesn't have any branches of the one company Texas decided to give a monopoly to.?ÿ In theory local law enforcement ...

@stlsurveyor Which other states require finger printing for land surveyors?

@bill93 With a record, or no?

@bill93 Then what were the measurements to?

D and C. This is a strang and unprofessional thing to do, but in the real world no one cares about 0.01'.

Draw it on a plat.?ÿ Legal description: The xxxx easment as depicted on xxxxxx plat.?ÿ