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Local court cases often have only local consequences. Public prescriptive easements for access to public land are very commonplace in some states. Th...
From "It is illegal to cross public land at corners. Some areas in the West are ??checker-boarded? with public and private lands, or otherwise have...
@just-a-surveyor I am not one of the luddites, and you have a point about hiring, but in at least one area that I have experience in the biggest ludd...
@just-a-surveyor Some DOS programs are more appropriate for a boundary surveyor than the latest version of civil3d. I agree with all your poin...
You won't find anything like that in your county code, the State governs judicial powers.
In Alaska at least, it can be the opposite. Statute prohibits a platted lot line from being changed without going through the subdivision process, but...
The last paragraph is about the validity of a conveyance. The rest of the statute is about recording. Although I think the last paragraph is superfluo...
Do you not see an ethical problem with creating a parcel on someone's land without their knowledge for the purpose of transferring their land to someo...
If the additional land is accretion, your client already owns it. The only question is how to partion the accretion. You or your client should enlist ...
The question I have is, how do you do a boundary line adjustment between one owner and no one? That's what the quite title process is for. Also, what ...
That's not true. The state doesn't own accretions. The riparian owner does. The quite title process is a way to provide a written document to match th...
You may be right, but the term "material discrepancy" is very commonly found in statutes and regulations in recording states.
If you don't know the identity of the adjoining parcels you don't have enough information to make a boundary decision. If you know the identity of the...
If you don't find a material discrepancy why on earth would you set a new monument at a new location?
You are free to limit your services however you want, and it is prudent to stay within your areas of expertise, but this is the bread and butter for m...
I wouldn't attempt to describe them till I actually tried to recover them.
It is a matter of trust, but no one cares if you can trust yourself. The question is can the public trust you. This is not a question of abilit...
Many states have statutes that require preservation of monuments during construction. These usually have provisions requiring monument cases or simila...
Comparing boundary surveying to cleaning a windshield???? The value of a boundary survey is in the trust the public, and particularly your adjoiners, ...
I agree, an appropriate scale is a scale that allows legible presentation of the required information while using a reasonable number of sheets. I hav...