Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location

WALTER G. ROBILLARD is an attorney at Land Consultants, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. DONALD A. WILSON is with Land Boundary, Inc. in New Fields, New Hampshire. The late CURTIS M. BROWN was a partner of Brown & Hall, a major land surveying firm in Sacramento, California.

Nature, scope and definition of evidence; verbal evidence; evidence-other; measurements as evidence; plats as evidence; evidence of water boundaries; using historical knowledge as evidence; preservation of evidence; procedures for locating boundaries described in writings and on maps; original surveys and platting laws; unwritten transfers of land ownership; apportionment procedures for land and water boundaries; guarantees of title and location; professional liability; professional stature; the surveyor in court; the surveyor - the law - and evidence - a professional relationalship.