Brown's boundary control and legal principles
By: Walter G. Robillard, Donald A. Wilson ; based on the original ideas and concepts created by Curtis M. Brown.
Contributors: Wilson, Donald A., 1941-; Brown, Curtis M. 1908-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780470183540
Subjects: Boundaries (Estates) -- United States; Surveying -- Law and legislation -- United States; Title examinations -- United States
Other titles: Boundary control and legal principles
Description: "Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles, Sixth Edition is an essential reference tool for professional surveyors studying for state surveying licensing, students, and attorneys in real estate and land law."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: History and concepts of boundaries; title: How boundaries are created; title: Ownership, transfer, and description of real property; title: Boundaries, law and presumptions; title: Creation of metes and bounds and nonsectionalized descriptions; title: Creation of GLO boundaries; title: Federal and state nonsectionalized land surveys; title: Locating easements and reversions; title: Riparian and litorial boundaries; title: .resurveying and retracing sectionalized lands; title: Locating sequential conveyances; title: Locating simultaneously created boundaries; title: Locating combination descriptions and conveyances; title: Role of the surveyor; title: The ethics and moral responsibilities of boundary creation and of retracements.