I didn't really consider the taking/condemnation aspect of this question and was thinking of it strictly as a boundary matter of a conveyance. After ...

That proposal appears every so often in the California legislature. Fortunately, most legislators come from some manner of professional services back...

State licensing boards have authority over individuals engaging in licensed activities. Some, but not all have authority over the organizations. Tha...

I was thinking along the same lines Dan... back to the days when I knew so much more than I do now and so much more than the people who had tried to t...

Do you want one sentence or a more complete explanation. The shorter the summary, the more details that need to be left out. You can go with Dave's o...

You asked me to do something that takes more than a single sentence to explain in a way that communicates what the surveyor does in plain language. Ma...

Assuming that you mean in terms of surveying someone's property boundaries: I gather all of the facts that will enable me to mark your boundaries in t...

No, but the wording of your initial statement gave that impression. Rather than periodically posting to tell us what you did not say, think it throug...

Almost all of the survey degrees I've been familiar with have only two semesters of boundary law as well. It's not enough. First, categorizing it as ...

Sounds like you've got enough to go with the monuments. The additional research you mention won't hurt, but not likely to turn up anything new given ...

Some things are correctly described only by specific and proper terms. Other, less technical or not in reference to certain legal principles need not...

Going to law school to learn about boundary surveying would be overkill, plus boundary conflicts constitute such a small percentage of law practice th...

For the vast majority of fact sets, boundary law is quite settled, so for most cases, the courts don't need to go beyond treating the survey as a ques...

May or may not be different things. First, most road RWs are also easements, the exceptions being where the RW conveyance document expressly states t...

In the case of your meanders and the ridge, the meanders appear to approximate the ridge. In that case, you don't really have any conflict, simply th...

I don't think you have enough info. Since a call to a RW is often treated as a call to a monument, and you've discovered that the monuments are not o...

I agree with parts of this statement and disagree with others. I agree that the lack of common terminology can be a hindrance to a landowners confide...

[sarcasm]Too bad boundaries aren't manufactured on an assembly line. Then we could just all adopt the manufacturer's terminology, work from their tec...

You apparently have no idea how many surveyors place markers at locations conflicting with the aliquot line as originally established on the ground si...