Land Surveyor Forum

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  Arie Lise, OLS, OLIP, Dipl.T. April 17, 2017 at 8:57pm

  The best evidence according to the hierarchy of evidence....unless you're dealing with adverse possession. 
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  trout April 13, 2017 at 8:45am

  There are boundaries of record and boundaries on the ground.  There are boundaries that are defined by monuments of record whether they are natural or artificial,  there are boundaries that are defined by monuments that are not of record and there are recorded boundaries that have never been transcribed to the ground.  there are boundary conflicts.  Most boundaries can be quantified by going through  the hierarchy of controlling evidence.  But in the end, all boundaries are defined by the property owners.  Whether amicably or through the court system.  Not by the surveyor.  Most clients understand the surveyor's rule when properly explained.  But some clients just want to insist that surveyors are the almighty property line delineator.  I make it a point to make sure all clients that I work with understands and agrees to my role before I agree to do any boundary retracement work with them.  My two cents.  Just be careful out there. 
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  Desperado April 13, 2017 at 8:11am

  It is the limits of real property described and conveyed through title documents and supported by physical evidence located by recovery or placement on the ground that can be retraced using historic or modern methods.
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  Judson Cato April 13, 2017 at 7:16am

  The range of my missiles.
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  CARLOS MANUEL SANTOS MATROCA April 13, 2017 at 6:34am

  DEPENDS WHAT TYPE OF BOUNDARY IS.

  BUT NORMALY ITS BY REGISTRATION FRAMES.
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  doug nickerson April 13, 2017 at 2:52am

  Legal descriptions, physical evidence , PLS' expert opinion, and the courts combine to define real property boundaries.
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  J. Anthony Cavell April 12, 2017 at 11:38pm

  A boundary is fundamentally defined as the limits of space one is willing and able to defend from incursions and claims by others. Nations do this by force of arms. Failure to defend means one may lose that which is not defended.

  Individuals in a country like the U.S. are expected to defend their property boundaries by enjoyment of the property and appeal to the courts when necessary instead of arms.

  Similarly, failure to defend means one may lose that which is not defended.

  There are, of course, many techniques and clever bureaucratic rules intended to administer and arbitrate this, but the fundamentals are very basic.

  JAC
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  Ritchie MacInnis April 12, 2017 at 10:56pm

  Property boundaries are defined by the oldest available field evidence on the ground. They include but are not limited to natural boundaries like shorelines that have not been disturbed by mankind. Lines of occupation like fences, tree lines and stone dykes. Blazed lines through the woods or possibly rock cairen's, wooden corner posts or iron bars at the property corners. All subject to the local prescriptive rights of adverse possession which should always be identified in a land surveyor's report.
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  Adewole Adeniyi D. April 12, 2017 at 8:35pm

  A property boundary is a extent of land that is demarcated by a property beacon of 18cm×18cm×75cm.
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  Kevin D. Allen April 12, 2017 at 8:18pm

  A boundary is described limit or extent.