Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location

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.

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.