UID:
almafu_9959328425502883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 678 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
6th ed.
ISBN:
9780470950050
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0470950056
,
9780470901571
,
0470901578
,
9780470901601
,
0470901608
,
0470404787
,
9780470404782
Content:
Professional surveyors and many civil engineers must understand the laws of boundaries and the evidence necessary for efficient and accurate boundary determination. This new edition of the preeminent text/reference on the subject is brought completely up to date, with new material on the use of technology in surveying and its legal ramifications, the use of forensic investigative techniques in the discovery of obscured evidence, new case law examples throughout, and new exhibits help illustrate the concepts presented.
Note:
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Definition, Scope, and Nature of Evidence -- Words as Evidence -- Evidence and Technology -- Other Types or Species of Evidence -- Calculations and Measurements as Evidence -- Plats as Evidence -- Evidence of Water Boundaries -- Using Historical Knowledge as Evidence -- Recording and Preserving Evidence -- Procedures for Locating Boundaries Described by Words -- Original Surveys and Related Platting Laws -- Unwritten Transfers of Land Ownership -- Guarantees of Title and Location -- Using and Understanding Words in Boundary Descriptions -- Professional Liability -- Professional Stature -- The Surveyor in Court -- 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.
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Introduction -- Definition, scope and nature of evidence -- Words as evidence -- Evidence and technology -- Other types or species of evidence -- Calculations and measurements as evidence -- Plats as evidence -- Evidence of water boundaries -- Using historical knowledge as evidence -- Recording and preserving evidence -- Procedures for locating boundaries described by words -- Original surveys and related platting laws -- Unwritten transfers of land ownership -- Guarantees of title and location -- Using and understanding words in boundary descriptions -- Professional liability -- Professional stature -- The surveyor in court -- The surveyor, the law, and evidence: a professional relationship.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Robillard, Walter G. (Walter George), 1930- Evidence and procedures for boundary location. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2011 ISBN 9780470404782
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470950050
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470950050
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