Cost of vehicle and operating expenses is in overhead to be replaced every 5 years. This goes toward a minimum hourly rate whether fees are fixed or h...

That's one way to look at it. I think the early records, and ability to reconstruct those, of the road location played the largest part. Not 1870's ...

The more I look at it, the more it looks like it might take a textbook to discuss it:) Maybe a series of articles. The reason I came across it was I...

Does it break when you sit on it, like some of the pretty stuff:-S

Yeah, acreages are always part of the analysis and can be the tipping factor when the boundary is balanced on conflicting evidence. Dave Ingram poste...

The Judge distinguished the prevailing surveyor from the others. The Prevailing surveyor (and title examiner) merely reviewed the work of others, cou...

Washington used to be a "state of mind State", not sure now. Basic difference is that in States where you need to know you're taking someone else's p...

I venture to guess, the best RTK in the world would not have helped the three "actual surveyors". I didn't post it for that reason, but c'mon man; is...

How useless. ALTA specs. require hot cocoa.

Mine actually digs up the monument for me:-P

The point is it depends on how you look at it, and either way it doesn't matter in many (not all) situations.

"...the common source of parties's titles and the sequence and descriptions in the conveyances out of that common grantor appear not to have been disc...

The Best things about JAVAD are also potentially the Worst things, but I like the company model and hope it succeeds. What I mean is that much of the...

To me ON refers to a point, ALONG to a line. Verb v. adverb? Don't remember all the grammatic rules but along just sounds better to me. "Coincident...

And this is part of our problem:good:

SE of the north Quarter Corner?

I agree. "East Boundary" is a thing; "eastern or easterly Boundary" is a description of a thing.

"it is well settled that grants made under Mexican sovereignty are to be construed according to the laws then in effect, both the principles of Spanis...