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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807681303321

Autore

Estopinal Stephen V (Stephen Vincent)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2011

ISBN

1-118-08468-3

1-283-25779-3

9786613257796

1-118-08584-1

1-118-08466-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Classificazione

TEC054000

Altri autori (Persone)

LathropWendy

Disciplina

526.9

Soggetti

Surveying

Surveys - Plotting

Real property

Map reading

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--