Clark on surveying and boundaries / Walter G. Robillard (member of the Georgia Bar, registered surveyor).

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Main Author: Robillard, Walter G. (Walter George), 1930- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, ©2014-
Edition:Eighth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • How the law of surveying and boundaries developed in the United States
  • The surveyor's rights, duties, liabilities
  • Rights and interests in land
  • Land surveying
  • Public land surveys
  • Land surveys in the original colonies
  • Land in states other than the original thirteen colonies
  • The congressional surveys
  • Subdivision of townships
  • Subdivision of sections
  • Government rules for lots, numbering and areas
  • Excess and deficiency
  • Meander lines and meander corners
  • Tracking a survey
  • Evidence to identify and locate tracts, corners and lines
  • The meanings of words and phrases used in descriptions
  • Restoration of corners
  • Reading instruments of conveyance
  • Monumentation of surveys
  • Agreements and other doctrines relative to boundaries and surveys
  • Maps, plats and platting
  • Adverse possession and prescription
  • Riparian rights
  • Accretion, avulsion, erosion and reliction
  • Surveying water boundaries
  • Dedication
  • Easements and other access
  • Resurveys
  • Highways and streets
  • Discussion of selected case law
  • Current surveying technology and related legal perceptions.