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Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New York Academy of Sciences SeriesPublisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (552 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118758540
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brown's Boundary Control and Legal PrinciplesDDC classification:
  • 346.7304/32
LOC classification:
  • KF639 .R635 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Seventh Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: History and Concept of Boundaries -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Significance of Boundaries -- 1.3 Boundary References -- 1.4 Terminus: The God (or Goddess) of Boundaries -- 1.5 Disputes and Boundaries -- 1.6 Role of the Surveyor in Boundaries -- 1.7 What Is Being Created? What is Being located? -- 1.8 Original Written Title -- 1.9 Rights and Interests in Land Are Composed of a Bundle of Rights -- 1.10 Role of the Court -- 1.11 Real and Personal Property -- 1.12 What Constitutes Real Property -- 1.13 Nature of Modern Estates -- 1.14 Taxes on Land and Tax Maps -- 1.15 Easements and Licenses -- 1.16 Servitudes, Restrictions, Covenants, and Conditions -- 1.17 Actions on Boundaries and Easements -- 1.18 One Unique Parcel or Boundary -- 1.19 The Original Boundaries Are Sacred -- 1.20 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Chapter 2: How Boundaries are Created -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definitions -- 2.3 Classification of Boundaries -- 2.4 Methods of Boundary Creation -- Creation of Boundaries by Running Lines -- Creation of Boundaries by Verbal Actions -- Creation of Boundaries by Survey -- 2.5 Who May Create Boundaries? -- 2.6 Sanctity of the Original Survey -- 2.7 Original Lines Remain Fixed -- 2.8 Distinctions between the Original Boundary Survey, the Retracement Survey, and the First Survey -- 2.9 Original Technological Methods of Boundary Creation Not Relatable to Modern Methods -- 2.10 Original Lines May Be Redescribed As a Result of a Retracement -- 2.11 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Ownership, Transfer, and Description of Real Property and Accompanying Rights -- 3.1 Concepts of Boundaries, Land Ownership, and Land Descriptions -- 3.2 Overview of Boundaries -- Metes and Bounds Creation.
GLO Creation -- 3.3 Public and Private Lands -- 3.4 Sources of Title -- 3.5 Voluntary Transfer of Real Property -- 3.6 Chain of Title -- 3.7 Torrens Title System -- 3.8 Unwritten Rights or Title to Land -- 3.9 Methods of Voluntary Transfer of Title -- 3.10 Deed or Description -- 3.11 Title or Lien -- 3.12 Deed of Trust -- 3.13 Mortgage -- 3.14 Escrow -- 3.15 Title Assurance and Title Insurance -- 3.16 Abstractors -- 3.17 Attorney's Opinion -- 3.18 General Land Descriptions -- 3.19 What Is in a description? -- 3.20 Measurements -- 3.21 Magnetic Directions -- 3.22 Reference Datums -- 3.23 Elements of Land Descriptions -- 3.24 Types of Descriptions -- 3.25 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Boundaries, Law, and Related Presumptions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Constitutional Law and the Surveyor -- 4.3 Jurisdiction -- 4.4 Federal Jurisdiction -- 4.5 Federal Government, Agency, or Officer as a Party -- 4.6 Sovereign Immunity -- 4.7 United States as a Defendant -- 4.8 Disposing of Federal Lands -- 4.9 Color of Title Act -- 4.10 Public Law 120 -- 4.11 Small Tracts Act -- 4.12 Researching the Laws -- 4.13 Court Reports -- 4.14 Legal Research -- 4.15 Judicial Notice -- 4.16 Evidence -- 4.17 Presumptions -- Definition -- 4.18 Common Presumptions -- 4.19 Survey Systems Present in the United States -- 4.20 Conclusions -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Creation and Interpretation of Metes and Bounds and Other Nonsectionalized Descriptions -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Methods of Creating Metes and Bounds or Nonsectionalized Descriptions -- 5.3 Metes Descriptions -- 5.4 Bounds Descriptions -- 5.5 Combination Metes and Bounds Descriptions -- 5.6 Strip Descriptions and Stationing -- 5.7 Descriptions by Reference -- 5.8 Aliquot Descriptions -- 5.9 Other Means of Creating Boundaries in Descriptions -- Division Line Description -- Distance Description.
Proportional Conveyance Description -- Exception Description -- Area Description -- "Of" Description -- 5.10 Nomenclature in Metes and Bounds Descriptions -- Direction of Travel -- Measurements of Distance -- Monuments -- Record Monuments and Adjoiners -- Properties of Monuments -- 5.11 Adjoiners -- 5.12 Deed Terms for Curves -- Curves -- 5.13 Lines and Their Elements -- Lines -- Compass Direction -- Deflection Angle -- Interior and Exterior Angles -- Azimuth -- Compass Points -- Parallel Lines -- Coordinates -- Lambert and Mercator Grids -- 5.14 Tax Descriptions and Abbreviated Descriptions -- Tax Statements -- Abbreviated Descriptions -- 5.15 Subdivision Descriptions -- 5.16 Parcels Created by Protraction -- 5.17 Features of Platting Acts -- 5.18 Writing Land Descriptions -- 5.19 Early Surveys -- 5.20 Priority of Calls in Metes and Bounds Surveys -- 5.21 Applying Priority Calls -- Lines Actually Run -- Monuments Set -- Adjoining Parcels -- Area -- 5.22 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Creation and Retracement of GLO Boundaries -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Original Surveys and Corrective Surveys -- 6.3 Law, Manuals, and Special Instructions -- 6.4 Effect of Manuals on Resurveys -- 6.5 History of the Public Land Survey System -- 6.6 Testing Ground: The Seven Ranges -- Outline of the Provision of the Ordinance of May 20, 1785, the Northwest Ordinance -- 6.7 Act of May 18, 1796-Clarification of 1785 -- Summary of the Act of 1796 -- 6.8 Acts of 1800 -- Act of March 1, 1800 -- Act of May 10, 1800 -- Structure of Sections -- 6.9 1803-The System Explodes -- 6.10 Act of March 26, 1804 -- 6.11 Act of February 11, 1805 -- 6.12 Land Surveys After 1805 -- 6.13 Survey Instructions -- Tiffin's Instructions -- General Instructions for Deputies -- 6.14 State Instructions and Statutes -- Act of March 3, 1811 (Louisiana) -- Louisiana Instructions and Statutes.
Half-Mile Posts: Alabama and Florida -- 6.15 Instruments Used -- 6.16 Field Notes -- 6.17 Nomenclature for Sections -- 6.18 Meandering -- 6.19 Resurveys and Retracements -- 6.20 Defective Boundaries Encountered in Resurveys -- 6.21 Sectionalized Surveys and Innovations -- 6.22 Irregular Original Government Subdivisions -- 6.23 Townships Other Than Regular -- 6.24 Summary of the GLO System -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Federal and State Nonsectionalized Land Surveys -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Early New England and Other Colonial-Era Surveys -- 7.3 Ohio Company of Associates -- 7.4 Donation Tract -- 7.5 Symmes Purchase -- 7.6 Virginia Military District -- 7.7 United States Military Tract -- 7.8 Connecticut Western Reserve and Firelands -- 7.9 Moravian Tracts -- 7.10 Florida Keys Survey -- 7.11 Donation Land Claims -- 7.12 Exchange Surveys and Their Status -- 7.13 Prior Land Grants from Foreign Governments -- 7.14 French Grants in the Louisiana Purchase -- 7.15 Mississippi Townships -- 7.16 Soldier's Additional Homestead -- 7.17 Indian Allotment Surveys -- 7.18 National Forest Homestead Entry -- 7.19 Tennessee Townships -- 7.20 Florida: Forbes Company Purchase Surveys -- 7.21 Georgia Lot System -- Surveys in the Noncontinental United States -- 7.22 General Comments -- 7.23 Hawaiian Land Laws -- Hawaiian Land Titles -- Hawaiian Law and Kamaaina -- The Great Mahele of 1848 -- Hawaiian Land Court -- Hawaiian Surveys -- Water Boundaries -- Adverse Possession -- 7.24 Puerto Rican Land Surveys -- Old Spanish Surveys -- Modern Land Subdivisions In Puerto Rico -- Natural Watercourses -- Land Parcel Research -- Survey Authority -- Preparation of Deeds and Descriptions -- Registration of Land Titles -- 7.25 Federal Mineral Surveys: General Comments -- 7.26 Water and Mineral Right Laws -- 7.27 Land Open to Appropriation of Minerals -- 7.28 Veins, Lodes, or Ledges.
7.29 Extralateral and Intralimital Rights -- 7.30 Mill Sites -- 7.31 Tunnel Locations -- 7.32 Size of Claims -- 7.33 Discovery -- 7.34 Locations -- 7.35 Possession -- 7.36 Annual Expenditures -- 7.37 Requirements for Patent -- 7.38 United States Mineral Surveyors -- 7.39 Survey of the Claim -- 7.40 Conclusions -- Recommended Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Locating Easements and Reversions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Rights Granted -- 8.3 Fee Title or Easement Right -- 8.4 Three Easement Descriptions and Three Boundaries -- 8.5 Ownership of the Bed of Easements -- 8.6 Surveyor's Responsibility as to Easements -- 8.7 Requirements for Locating Easements -- 8.8 Centerline Presumption -- 8.9 Conveyances with Private Way Boundaries -- 8.10 Use of Easements -- 8.11 Revival of Public Easements -- 8.12 Creation of Easement Boundaries -- 8.13 Dividing Private Street Ownership -- 8.14 Words Used in Centerline Conveyances -- 8.15 Apportioning Reversion Rights -- 8.16 General Principle of Reversion -- 8.17 Reversion Rights of a Lot on a Curved Street -- 8.18 Lots Adjoining Two Subdivision Boundaries -- 8.19 Lots at an Angle Point in a Road -- 8.20 Indeterminate Situations -- 8.21 Exceptions to the Rules of Apportionment -- 8.22 Describing Vacated Streets and Easements -- 8.23 Litigating Easements -- 8.24 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Riparian and Littoral Boundaries -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Ownership of the Seas -- 9.3 Ownership of the U.S. Territorial Sea -- Federal Claims -- State Claims -- 9.4 Ownership of Interior Tidal Waters of the United States -- 9.5 Landward Boundary of Tidal Waters -- General Anglo-American Common Law -- Exceptions Based on Massachusetts Colonial Ordinance -- Exceptions Based on Civil Law -- 9.6 Ownership of Nontidal Navigable Waters -- 9.7 Landward Boundaries of Nontidal Waters.
9.8 Significance of Public Land Survey Meander Lines.
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Intro -- Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Seventh Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: History and Concept of Boundaries -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Significance of Boundaries -- 1.3 Boundary References -- 1.4 Terminus: The God (or Goddess) of Boundaries -- 1.5 Disputes and Boundaries -- 1.6 Role of the Surveyor in Boundaries -- 1.7 What Is Being Created? What is Being located? -- 1.8 Original Written Title -- 1.9 Rights and Interests in Land Are Composed of a Bundle of Rights -- 1.10 Role of the Court -- 1.11 Real and Personal Property -- 1.12 What Constitutes Real Property -- 1.13 Nature of Modern Estates -- 1.14 Taxes on Land and Tax Maps -- 1.15 Easements and Licenses -- 1.16 Servitudes, Restrictions, Covenants, and Conditions -- 1.17 Actions on Boundaries and Easements -- 1.18 One Unique Parcel or Boundary -- 1.19 The Original Boundaries Are Sacred -- 1.20 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Chapter 2: How Boundaries are Created -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definitions -- 2.3 Classification of Boundaries -- 2.4 Methods of Boundary Creation -- Creation of Boundaries by Running Lines -- Creation of Boundaries by Verbal Actions -- Creation of Boundaries by Survey -- 2.5 Who May Create Boundaries? -- 2.6 Sanctity of the Original Survey -- 2.7 Original Lines Remain Fixed -- 2.8 Distinctions between the Original Boundary Survey, the Retracement Survey, and the First Survey -- 2.9 Original Technological Methods of Boundary Creation Not Relatable to Modern Methods -- 2.10 Original Lines May Be Redescribed As a Result of a Retracement -- 2.11 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Ownership, Transfer, and Description of Real Property and Accompanying Rights -- 3.1 Concepts of Boundaries, Land Ownership, and Land Descriptions -- 3.2 Overview of Boundaries -- Metes and Bounds Creation.

GLO Creation -- 3.3 Public and Private Lands -- 3.4 Sources of Title -- 3.5 Voluntary Transfer of Real Property -- 3.6 Chain of Title -- 3.7 Torrens Title System -- 3.8 Unwritten Rights or Title to Land -- 3.9 Methods of Voluntary Transfer of Title -- 3.10 Deed or Description -- 3.11 Title or Lien -- 3.12 Deed of Trust -- 3.13 Mortgage -- 3.14 Escrow -- 3.15 Title Assurance and Title Insurance -- 3.16 Abstractors -- 3.17 Attorney's Opinion -- 3.18 General Land Descriptions -- 3.19 What Is in a description? -- 3.20 Measurements -- 3.21 Magnetic Directions -- 3.22 Reference Datums -- 3.23 Elements of Land Descriptions -- 3.24 Types of Descriptions -- 3.25 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Boundaries, Law, and Related Presumptions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Constitutional Law and the Surveyor -- 4.3 Jurisdiction -- 4.4 Federal Jurisdiction -- 4.5 Federal Government, Agency, or Officer as a Party -- 4.6 Sovereign Immunity -- 4.7 United States as a Defendant -- 4.8 Disposing of Federal Lands -- 4.9 Color of Title Act -- 4.10 Public Law 120 -- 4.11 Small Tracts Act -- 4.12 Researching the Laws -- 4.13 Court Reports -- 4.14 Legal Research -- 4.15 Judicial Notice -- 4.16 Evidence -- 4.17 Presumptions -- Definition -- 4.18 Common Presumptions -- 4.19 Survey Systems Present in the United States -- 4.20 Conclusions -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Creation and Interpretation of Metes and Bounds and Other Nonsectionalized Descriptions -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Methods of Creating Metes and Bounds or Nonsectionalized Descriptions -- 5.3 Metes Descriptions -- 5.4 Bounds Descriptions -- 5.5 Combination Metes and Bounds Descriptions -- 5.6 Strip Descriptions and Stationing -- 5.7 Descriptions by Reference -- 5.8 Aliquot Descriptions -- 5.9 Other Means of Creating Boundaries in Descriptions -- Division Line Description -- Distance Description.

Proportional Conveyance Description -- Exception Description -- Area Description -- "Of" Description -- 5.10 Nomenclature in Metes and Bounds Descriptions -- Direction of Travel -- Measurements of Distance -- Monuments -- Record Monuments and Adjoiners -- Properties of Monuments -- 5.11 Adjoiners -- 5.12 Deed Terms for Curves -- Curves -- 5.13 Lines and Their Elements -- Lines -- Compass Direction -- Deflection Angle -- Interior and Exterior Angles -- Azimuth -- Compass Points -- Parallel Lines -- Coordinates -- Lambert and Mercator Grids -- 5.14 Tax Descriptions and Abbreviated Descriptions -- Tax Statements -- Abbreviated Descriptions -- 5.15 Subdivision Descriptions -- 5.16 Parcels Created by Protraction -- 5.17 Features of Platting Acts -- 5.18 Writing Land Descriptions -- 5.19 Early Surveys -- 5.20 Priority of Calls in Metes and Bounds Surveys -- 5.21 Applying Priority Calls -- Lines Actually Run -- Monuments Set -- Adjoining Parcels -- Area -- 5.22 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Creation and Retracement of GLO Boundaries -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Original Surveys and Corrective Surveys -- 6.3 Law, Manuals, and Special Instructions -- 6.4 Effect of Manuals on Resurveys -- 6.5 History of the Public Land Survey System -- 6.6 Testing Ground: The Seven Ranges -- Outline of the Provision of the Ordinance of May 20, 1785, the Northwest Ordinance -- 6.7 Act of May 18, 1796-Clarification of 1785 -- Summary of the Act of 1796 -- 6.8 Acts of 1800 -- Act of March 1, 1800 -- Act of May 10, 1800 -- Structure of Sections -- 6.9 1803-The System Explodes -- 6.10 Act of March 26, 1804 -- 6.11 Act of February 11, 1805 -- 6.12 Land Surveys After 1805 -- 6.13 Survey Instructions -- Tiffin's Instructions -- General Instructions for Deputies -- 6.14 State Instructions and Statutes -- Act of March 3, 1811 (Louisiana) -- Louisiana Instructions and Statutes.

Half-Mile Posts: Alabama and Florida -- 6.15 Instruments Used -- 6.16 Field Notes -- 6.17 Nomenclature for Sections -- 6.18 Meandering -- 6.19 Resurveys and Retracements -- 6.20 Defective Boundaries Encountered in Resurveys -- 6.21 Sectionalized Surveys and Innovations -- 6.22 Irregular Original Government Subdivisions -- 6.23 Townships Other Than Regular -- 6.24 Summary of the GLO System -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Federal and State Nonsectionalized Land Surveys -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Early New England and Other Colonial-Era Surveys -- 7.3 Ohio Company of Associates -- 7.4 Donation Tract -- 7.5 Symmes Purchase -- 7.6 Virginia Military District -- 7.7 United States Military Tract -- 7.8 Connecticut Western Reserve and Firelands -- 7.9 Moravian Tracts -- 7.10 Florida Keys Survey -- 7.11 Donation Land Claims -- 7.12 Exchange Surveys and Their Status -- 7.13 Prior Land Grants from Foreign Governments -- 7.14 French Grants in the Louisiana Purchase -- 7.15 Mississippi Townships -- 7.16 Soldier's Additional Homestead -- 7.17 Indian Allotment Surveys -- 7.18 National Forest Homestead Entry -- 7.19 Tennessee Townships -- 7.20 Florida: Forbes Company Purchase Surveys -- 7.21 Georgia Lot System -- Surveys in the Noncontinental United States -- 7.22 General Comments -- 7.23 Hawaiian Land Laws -- Hawaiian Land Titles -- Hawaiian Law and Kamaaina -- The Great Mahele of 1848 -- Hawaiian Land Court -- Hawaiian Surveys -- Water Boundaries -- Adverse Possession -- 7.24 Puerto Rican Land Surveys -- Old Spanish Surveys -- Modern Land Subdivisions In Puerto Rico -- Natural Watercourses -- Land Parcel Research -- Survey Authority -- Preparation of Deeds and Descriptions -- Registration of Land Titles -- 7.25 Federal Mineral Surveys: General Comments -- 7.26 Water and Mineral Right Laws -- 7.27 Land Open to Appropriation of Minerals -- 7.28 Veins, Lodes, or Ledges.

7.29 Extralateral and Intralimital Rights -- 7.30 Mill Sites -- 7.31 Tunnel Locations -- 7.32 Size of Claims -- 7.33 Discovery -- 7.34 Locations -- 7.35 Possession -- 7.36 Annual Expenditures -- 7.37 Requirements for Patent -- 7.38 United States Mineral Surveyors -- 7.39 Survey of the Claim -- 7.40 Conclusions -- Recommended Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Locating Easements and Reversions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Rights Granted -- 8.3 Fee Title or Easement Right -- 8.4 Three Easement Descriptions and Three Boundaries -- 8.5 Ownership of the Bed of Easements -- 8.6 Surveyor's Responsibility as to Easements -- 8.7 Requirements for Locating Easements -- 8.8 Centerline Presumption -- 8.9 Conveyances with Private Way Boundaries -- 8.10 Use of Easements -- 8.11 Revival of Public Easements -- 8.12 Creation of Easement Boundaries -- 8.13 Dividing Private Street Ownership -- 8.14 Words Used in Centerline Conveyances -- 8.15 Apportioning Reversion Rights -- 8.16 General Principle of Reversion -- 8.17 Reversion Rights of a Lot on a Curved Street -- 8.18 Lots Adjoining Two Subdivision Boundaries -- 8.19 Lots at an Angle Point in a Road -- 8.20 Indeterminate Situations -- 8.21 Exceptions to the Rules of Apportionment -- 8.22 Describing Vacated Streets and Easements -- 8.23 Litigating Easements -- 8.24 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Riparian and Littoral Boundaries -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Ownership of the Seas -- 9.3 Ownership of the U.S. Territorial Sea -- Federal Claims -- State Claims -- 9.4 Ownership of Interior Tidal Waters of the United States -- 9.5 Landward Boundary of Tidal Waters -- General Anglo-American Common Law -- Exceptions Based on Massachusetts Colonial Ordinance -- Exceptions Based on Civil Law -- 9.6 Ownership of Nontidal Navigable Waters -- 9.7 Landward Boundaries of Nontidal Waters.

9.8 Significance of Public Land Survey Meander Lines.

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