Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location

Donald A. Wilson is President of Land & Boundary Consultants, Inc.? Charles A. Nettleman, III, Ph.D., is President and CEO of Nettleman Land Consultants, Inc. and Director of the Nettleman Institute of Land Surveying Engineering Technology, Inc.? Walter G. Robillard is a Principal at World Boundaries, Inc.?

Preface


1 Introduction


2 Definition, Scope, and Nature of Evidence


3 Words as Evidence


4 Evidence and Technology


5 Other Types or Species of Evidence


6 Calculations and Measurements as Evidence


7 Plats as Evidence


8 Evidence of Water Boundaries


9 Using Historical Knowledge as Evidence


10 Recording and Preserving Evidence


11 Procedures for Locating Boundaries Described by Words


12 Original Surveys and Related Platting Laws


13 Unwritten Transfers of Land Ownership


14 Guarantees of Title and Location


15 Using and Understanding Words in Boundary 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