Yes it still is an open question. The 5 only agreed to remand, there were only 4 who agreed to the Scalia definition. If the Scalia definition had the...

Since Jim is in California this call wouldn't have happened if we were talking about a boundary survey that required Jim to set monuments, becasue it ...

Your map should still be a faithful representation of the parcel as of the date of your survey. There is no new liability on your part, unless you thi...

The vast majority of easements do not include the right to grant access to a third party for profit.?ÿ The answer lies in the easement language, of co...

The Rapanos case did not decide anything, the court split 3 ways with no majority.?ÿ The case was remanded to a lower court and Rapanos eventually agr...

If all the lot owners are in agreement I doubt an attorney is neccessary, but the process varies wildly between jurisdictions. Any advise you get on h...

A good lesson in why we always need to do our research.

That may be true in PA, but in many states its not that easy.

In most states it really is not possible, but that does not mean the ROW always gets its full width.?ÿ?ÿ

Who is rejecting a whole class of evidence??ÿ

Of course they should, but in the meantime OK surveyors need to deal with life without recording.?ÿ In Oklahoma many PLSS corners have multiple corner...

Lets not start this ROW monuments thing again. Some of your statements have been heavily disputed in a few very long threads here.?ÿ?ÿ

Dave, You are speaking from a recording state perspective. In a non-recording state, like Oklahoma, often the only way to record?ÿ a boundary survey i...

Unless land surveyors have some good friends in the Utah legislature I dont think it will be easy, but there are other ways. In Alaska the?ÿ writting ...

Sure, but not telling the retracing surveyor what the corner actually is exponentially increases the uncertainty, and the probability of two retracing...

Well, if using a total station no scaling is required. If using GPS you are not using the raw vector distance, if that's what you mean. The difference...

Ahhh, now that I understand exactly what you did, two feet doesn't sound out of the ordinary. I would suggest not using bipods or a 360 prisim under s...

I have been shocked at how slow road construction progresses in the lower 48.

Exactly, of course the datum is important, and it ?ÿis always good to include the details, but since coordinates do not hold much legal significance (...

If you can be assured that the plat will stay with the legal, then maybe what the title company wants could work by just adding a reference to the sur...