The courts say to construe the deed by the four corners with the intent of the grantor being controlling. A course cannot be evaluated in isolation. T...

I have pondered that question for almost 50 years. Nobody likes the concept of a wide boundary line; not landowners, not surveyors, or courts. But if...

If the original deed was for the tree with no mention of center, then even if the tree is gone we are looking for the location of the tree at the time...

I would agree with most all of this except I would change one word - The term is "polishing the turd". Perfection only appeared in the minds of the...

In my opinion, no. But this is an area where law may differ state to state. And there are many surveyors that have a different opinion than my own. Wh...

@landbutcher464mhz Hypothetical deed dedicating property to a public cemetery in 1918. Commencing at the southeast corner of Section ....., thenc...

  I think that was what I was saying "Surveyors can not put precision in a deed." Any precision refinement to a wide monument must come from th...

Now I would like to discuss two types of land descriptions that lack precision. One is where the description calls for monuments that have width witho...

Original Post The deed provided to the surveyor reads, "Lot 8, Block 3, Nurple Addition to the Town of Westsylvania, Hermrick County, West Virginia"...

@mightymoe So how did you arrive at an opinion for the location of the RR, and why?

Lot 8, Block 3, Nurple Addition to the Town of Westsylvania That's a beauty! It's going to take several legal principles to make sense of this one...

If erosion took all of Lot 4 it may continue as a concept but not as a fact. Any future accretion would go to the track behind Lot 4 and not be subjec...

I'm confused. Does "Assessor maps each and every deed that is recorded" show that the deed is already recorded in the official property records.? A ...

Deeds lacking precision are common. Is there a way to show this condition on a survey plat? Would the State Board approve it? Where is the guidance as...

Thanks for the example of a vague call. Just the kind of thing a surveyor must evaluate.  

Of your 3,632 posts, can you point me to the one that covers this subject?  

You don't get to my age without picking up a bunch of useless knowledge, especially if you grew up with a group of redneck do-it-youselfers. Arkansa...

For land issues, if courts don't resolve the dispute, the result can be deadly. Thus the roll surveyors play in litigation is very important. If ...

Exactly! After thinking on it I composed the more formal statement from the view of a surveyor: The judicial system provides a lawful means of resol...