Evidence and Procedures
for Boundary Location - 5th Edition
Understand
the Laws of Property Boundaries and Boundary Determination
By Walter G. Robillard,
Donald A. Wilson, Curtis M. Brown
Professional
Surveyors and Civil Engineers Must Understand the Laws of Property
Boundaries
 Professional
surveyors and many civil engineers must understand the laws of
property boundaries and the evidence necessary for efficient and
accurate boundary determination.
This new edition of the pre-eminent
text/reference on the subject is brought completely up to date, with
new material on the use of technology in surveying and its legal
ramifications, the use of measurements as evidence, new case law
examples throughout, new material on finding original evidence, and
new exhibits help illustrate the concepts presented.
Key Features
- Updated throughout with new case law
examples and exhibits
- Expanded coverage of negligence and
liability issues
- New material on how and when to locate
original evidence to support findings
- Detailed coverage of the use of
technology in surveying and the impact technology has on the use
of data as evidence
- Additional coverage of the use of
measurements as evidence
- Detailed coverage of all types of
evidence: maps and documents; measurements; monuments and trees;
and digital data
- How to report this evidence and use it in
court
- How to conduct oneself in court, both as
a defendant and as an expert witness
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About The Authors:
Walter G. Robillard is President of Walter
G. Robillard & Associates in Atlanta, Georgia.
Donald A. Wilson is President of Land &
Boundary Consultants, Inc., of New Fields, New Hampshire.
The late Curtis M. Brown was a partner
of Brown & Hall, a major land surveying firm in Sacramento,
California
Table of Contents:
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of Contents (PDF)
Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Nature, Scope, and Definition of
Evidence.
3. Verbal Evidence.
4. Technology as Evidence.
5. Other Evidence.
6. Measurements as Evidence.
7. Plats as Evidence.
8. Evidence of Water Boundaries.
9. Historical Knowledge as Evidence.
10. Preservation of Evidence.
11. Procedures for Locating Boundaries
Described in Writings and on Maps.
12. Original Surveys and Platting Laws.
13. Unwritten Transfers of Land Ownership.
14. Guarantees of Title and Location.
15. Understanding and Writing Property
Descriptions.
16. Professional Liability.
17. Professional Stature.
18. The Surveyor in Court.
19. The Surveyor, the Law, and Evidence: A
Professional Relationship.
Appendix A: The Surveyor's Report.
Appendix B: Wooden Evidence.
Appendix C: The [Quasi-]Judicial Function
of Surveyors.
Appendix D: Geodaesia.
Appendix E: Land Acts that Created the
Public Lands.
Index
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Index (PDF)
Hard-Cover, 640 Pages
Published 2006
ISBN: 978-0-471-69447-2
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