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Interpreting the words used is the first – and most critical – of many steps that must be taken in the process of performing a retracement survey of property.
No doubt many of you have already heard about the recent article that appeared on Bloomberg.com entitled "Land Surveyors Are Paying the Price of Progress" ("Paying the Price").
For centuries, custom has been recognized in the early English legal system as a source of law. In recent years, it has experienced a renaissance of sorts in the American courts for its possible effect on public access to otherwise privately owned dry-sand beach areas.
Present-day Keg Island exists in the Mississippi River where the river flows between the states of Iowa and Illinois. It is over a mile long, maybe a quarter of a mile wide at its widest point, consisting of about 128 acres – and it is uninhabited.
I have been a licensed land surveyor for almost 40 years. As with any of us “old farts” who have been in the game as long as I have, we’ve seen tremendous changes in the profession over the years.
I am trying to highlight an area of concern that relates every day to us as land surveyors across these United States. My intent with this article is to turn the scope to the subject of discrepancies and related mapping processes.
In my previous column, in the August issue, we went into a detailed discussion on how to know that you have rendered a well-reasoned opinion on the location of the property lines that are the subject of your survey — a litmus test, if you will.
As you may recall, one of the key elements of the test is the application of the appropriate boundary law principles.
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