Boundary Control and Legal Principles

WALTER G. ROBILLARD has served as Regional Surveyor with the U.S. Forest Service in Atlanta, Georgia, and as an attorney-at-law specializing in land, boundaries, and real property. He has worked as a consultant to government agencies, public utilities, and corporations both in the United States and abroad. He is a past President of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and is the recipient of an Award of Excellence from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is coauthor of Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location, Third Edition and Handbook of Annotated Forms for the Surveying Practice, both published by Wiley-Interscience. DONALD A. WILSON is an independent land boundary consultant and has worked on the publication of boundary law compilations for Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. He is coauthor of Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location, Third Edition (Wiley-Interscience) and author of Alabama Law: Land Surveying and Boundaries Statutes and Case Law, among other publications. CURTIS M. BROWN (deceased) was a land surveyor in private practice for nearly forty years. Mr. Brown was the author of many professional publications and coauthor of Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location, Third Edition (Wiley-Interscience). He served as president of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and was a recipient of the Surveying and Mapping Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

History of Boundaries; How Boundaries Are Created; The Ownership, Transfer, and Description of Real Property; Boundaries, Law, and Presumptions; The Creation of GLO Boundaries; The Creation of Nonsectionalized Boundaries; Federal and State Nonsectionalized Land Surveys; Locating Easements and Reversions; Riparian and Littoral Boundaries; Resurveying and Retracing Sectionalized Lands; Locating Sequential Conveyances; Locating Simultaneously Created Boundaries; Locating Combination Descriptions and Conveyances; The Role of the Surveyor; Glossary of Deed Terms; Index.