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Brown's boundary control and legal principles

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Hoboken Wiley 2003Edition: 5th edDescription: ix, 460p. 24cmISBN:
  • 0471215988
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 346.410432
Summary: A fifth edition of this textbook on the law of boundaries in the United States which has been expanded to include information on GIS and GPS. Considers: the history of boundaries; how they are created; the ownership, transfer and description of real property in law; easements and reversions; and boundary law and presumptions. Different types of boundary are discussed including metes and bounds, General Land Office (GLO) boundaries, riparian boundaries and littorial boundaries. Provides advice on federal and state land surveys, resurveying and retracting sectionalised lands, and the role of the surveyor. Diagrams, glossary and references.Summary: Supersedes fourth edition (ISBN 0471043125).

A fifth edition of this textbook on the law of boundaries in the United States which has been expanded to include information on GIS and GPS. Considers: the history of boundaries; how they are created; the ownership, transfer and description of real property in law; easements and reversions; and boundary law and presumptions. Different types of boundary are discussed including metes and bounds, General Land Office (GLO) boundaries, riparian boundaries and littorial boundaries. Provides advice on federal and state land surveys, resurveying and retracting sectionalised lands, and the role of the surveyor. Diagrams, glossary and references.

Supersedes fourth edition (ISBN 0471043125).