The four corners rule has gone the way of the horse and buggy. There is the occassional application but usually it does not apply. A habendum clause...

So,1848 plat of lot 3 with no particular location info.Sometime after that a deed with distance mentioned but no info on where it came from, and no mo...

JB, It is fine for surveyors to learn the basic rules of law regarding civil procedure and evidence. However, both those areas of law are specialties...

"I'm not going to call the fence the quarter section line, just the boundary (but it is the boundary according to the original description and the bou...

Sure, but I would just be repeating myself, and I'm sure you would find a way to spin it. I don't want to discourage surveyors from following your pe...

Well, all I can say is you're living in a different universe of law there in Utah. But if it works for ya it's all good.Duane

"If you are "resorting" to questioning witnesses, then it's no wonder they are hostile. When you tell them your opinion of the boundary location just ...

David, I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't always want to let the testimony take a course directed by the imagination of the witness. In the q...

Sure, I have the opposite reaction too. But I think we are straying from the original premise now. Maybe I've miscontrued it. Neutral questions are...

JB, if I have to resort to questioning witnesses, then they are hostile. Surveying is not a court of law as you seem to believe. It is an investigat...

It's called the ......I know Lucas is quite entertaining, but I think he needs to be taken with a grain of salt. These issues are extremely complicat...

Well client, the fence appears to be the boundary (or not). Is that what you thought too? Client: Well, you're the surveyor, what does my deed say?...

Link to the caseYeah, the legal terminology I would use is that the fence is an "accessory" to the corner. Corroborating evidence of that can be larg...

Link to the caseAhh, a dead giveaway, then you know you're actually performing a retracement:) I know, what's so hard to understand about that?

Link to the caseTo me it is merely a correct retracement survey. I think it was incorrect to decide it under an acquiesence claim, but the court can ...

Does your paper go over the whole text problem? I would like to be able to draw text, insert labels and dimensions, etc. in model space and then be a...

Don't give it away!Hmmm, upstate NY; aren't you supposed to eat the "tie in" AND the "lots of work left"? This in exchange for the "lots more work" b...