Professional surveyors and real property descriptions : composition, construction, and comprehension / Stephen V. Estopinal, Wendy Lathrop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estopinal, Stephen V. (Stephen Vincent)

Contributor:

Lathrop, Wendy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying.

Surveys--Plotting.

Surveys.

Real property.

Map reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Land boundaries are the physical, technical, and legal entities that define the extent and limits of a particular parcel of land, whether a small acreage of private property or the delineation between sovereign nations. This book is intended to be a tutorial on writing land descriptions for surveyors, allowing readers to be able to construct complete and modern land descriptions. Providing not only information on how to write new descriptions, this book also covers the history of how historic descriptions were written, enabling the reader to properly interpret them today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS ANDREAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTIONS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Property; 1.1.1 Personal Property; 1.1.2 Real Property; 1.1.3 Ownership; 1.1.4 Possession; 1.2 Title and Interests in Real Property; 1.2.1 The Concept of Title; 1.2.2 Fee Simple; 1.2.3 Limited Title; 1.2.4 Easements; 1.3 Transfers of Title and Interests; 1.3.1 Written Transfers and Conveyances; 1.3.2 Unwritten Transfers and Conveyances; 1.3.3 Statute of Frauds; 1.4 Deeds; 1.4.1 Legally Sufficient; 1.4.2 Abstract of Title; 1.4.3 Recordation; 2 LAND RECORD SYSTEMS; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Metes and Bounds

2.2.1 General History2.2.2 Legally Sufficient; 2.3 United States Public Lands System; 2.3.1 History; 2.3.2 Aliquot Division; 2.4 Platted Subdivisions; 2.4.1 History; 2.4.2 Recorded Plats; 2.4.3 State and Local Regulations; 2.4.4 Federal, State, and Local Government Maps; 2.4.5 Linear Tracts; 2.5 Combined Record System Descriptions; 3 DIRECTIONS; 3.1 Angles; 3.1.1 General; 3.1.2 Interior Angles; 3.1.3 Exterior Angles; 3.1.4 Deflection Angles; 3.2 Meridians; 3.2.1 General; 3.2.2 True North; 3.2.3 Astronomic North; 3.2.4 Magnetic North; 3.2.5 State Plane North; 3.2.6 Assumed North; 3.3 Bearings

3.3.1 North-South Reference Lines3.3.2 East-West Reference Lines; 3.3.3 Reversing Directions; 3.3.4 Generalized Directions; 3.4 Curved Lines; 3.5 Azimuths; 3.6 Compass Directions and Headings; 4 MAP PROJECTIONS; 4.1 General; 4.2 Projectionless Maps; 4.2.1 Government Land Office (GLO) Plats; 4.3 Conformal Plane Projection; 4.3.1 Tangent Plane Projection; 4.3.2 Lambert Projection; 4.3.3 Transverse Mercator Projection; 4.3.4 State Plane Projection; 4.3.5 Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM); 4.3.6 Global Positioning System (GPS); 4.3.7 Geographical Information Systems (GIS); 4.4 Application

5 PLATTING TO DESCRIBE5.1 General; 5.2 Original Surveys; 5.2.1 Identifying the Bounding Parcels; 5.2.2 Monumentation; 5.2.3 Directions; 5.2.4 Distances; 5.3 Retracement Surveys; 5.3.1 Hierarchy of Calls; 5.3.2 Identification of Lines; 5.3.3 Area and Significant Figures; 5.3.4 Recovery of Monumentation; 5.3.5 Perpetuation of Monumentation; 5.4 Preserving the Evidence in Words: A Case Study; 5.5 Reference to Plats in Descriptions; 6 COMPOSING, COMPREHENDING DESCRIPTIONS; 6.1 General; 6.2 Hierarchy of Calls; 6.2.1 Elements of the Boundaries; 6.3 Caption; 6.3.1 Land Record System

6.3.2 Clarify Intent6.4 Body; 6.4.1 Point of Commencement; 6.4.2 Point of Beginning; 6.4.3 Elements of the Boundaries; 6.5 Elements of the Description; 6.5.1 Qualifications (Additions, Subtractions, Reservations); 6.5.2 Closing and References; 6.6 Punctuation and Language; 6.6.1 Key Words or Phrases; 6.6.2 Construing Ambiguous Deeds; 6.7 Deed Discrepancies-Conflicts; 7 ALTA/ACSM SURVEYS; 7.1 Land Title Insurance; 7.1.1 Why a Survey Matters; 7.2 ALTA/ACSM Survey Standards; 7.3 Mandatory Requirements for ALTA Surveys; 7.4 Accuracy Standards; 7.5 Informational Options

7.6 The Description for an ALTA/ACSM Survey

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613257796

9781118084687

1118084683

9781283257794

1283257793

9781118085844

1118085841

9781118084663

1118084667

OCLC:

816862077