Product Description

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 pre-eminent 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 measurements as evidence, new case law examples throughout, new material on finding original evidence, and new exhibits help illustrate the concepts presented.

Key Features

• Updated throughout with new case law examples and exhibits
• Expanded coverage of negligence and liability issues
• New material on how and when to locate original evidence to support findings
• Detailed coverage of the use of technology in surveying and the impact technology has on the use of data as evidence
• Additional coverage of the use of measurements as evidence
• Detailed coverage of all types of evidence: maps and documents; measurements; monuments and trees; and digital data
• How to report this evidence and use it in court
• How to conduct oneself in court, both as a defendant and as an expert witness

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #356176 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

From the Back Cover
The up-to-date, new edition of the cornerstone reference

Since Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location was first published more than four decades ago, this landmark resource has been a vital reference for surveying practitioners. This thoroughly revised Fifth Edition upholds the same superior presentation of boundary laws and evidence as its predecessors, while providing new case law and exhibits, more material on negligence and liability, additional coverage on the use of technology in surveying, and new insights into the use of measurements as evidence.

The first section of this book covers resurveys and retracements of former surveys based on land records. It deals with the methods used for locating corners, lines, and parcels of these surveys, while detailing all types of evidence, including maps and documents; measurements; monuments and trees; and digital data. The increasing importance of an area's history to surveyors is also a featured topic. The later chapters examine the creation of new parcels of land from a legal standpoint. This edition also includes new and expanded examinations of:

• Technology as evidence
• Professional liability
• How to report evidence and use it in court
• Court conduct, both as a defendant and as an expert witness
• The origins of boundary evidence

Whether used in conjunction with Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles, Fifth Edition or on its own, Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location, Fifth Edition continues to stand as the fundamental reference for licensed practicing surveyors, lawyers, property owners, civil engineers, and students in surveying courses in two- and four-year programs. Its practical applications have also made it a widely used study guide for land surveyor examinations.

About the Author
WALTER G. ROBILLARD is President of Walter G. Robillard & Associates in Atlanta, Georgia.

DONALD A. WILSON is President of Land & Boundary Consultants, Inc., of New Fields, New Hampshire.

The late CURTIS M. BROWN was a partner of Brown & Hall, a major land surveying firm in Sacramento, California.

Customer Reviews

A classic text badly in need of editing.
First & second editions of this text have long been considered standards in the land surveying profession, but I was disappointed with this (the 3rd) edition. The material is all there, but badly in need of a careful editor. Errors in punctuation and typography were frequent enough to be a real distraction. I found myself pencilling corrections in the margins as I read! For instance, long quotations, not set with a change of fonts, or even quotation marks, made for difficult interpretation. I had the distinct impression that certain chapters were revised in a hurry, and that perhaps each author thought the other was checking the work. In at least one chapter, it appeared that two different authors took a stab at addressing a single subject and both were included in the book although in DRAFT form! The authors also need to update discussions of measurement methodologies to include electronic total stations, data collectors and GPS. Though I'm not a real big adv! ocate of gender-neutral writing, the next edition should totally expunge the term "title men", which must appear 15 times.

Despite these drawbacks, the text remains a handy reference, and will probably remain a standard for some time. Hopefully the 4th Edition will be more carefully revised and edited.

A Good Boundary Research Reference
This is a good text to introduce the surveyor to boundary evidence, procedures, and the history of orginal surveys. The information in the text covers much of the United States and supplements evidence gathering procedures in specific States.

Many of us are not Survey Lawyers or RPLS's yet.
I realize that there is a lot of pressure to sound & speak intelligently when a person writes a book. Many people who read this book are intelligent & speak with high vocabularies. There's nothing wrong with intelligent communication. But realize that many people who read these books are not lawyers, RPLS's, or even SIT's yet & try to teach with the heart of a teacher. After all, the reason for writing this book should be to teach people in a way that allows them to understand. The goal is not to impress others with your intelligence. It's obvious that you are intelligent or else you wouldn't be in your position. But are you able to explain things in a way that most people with surveying experience can understand, if not, you are missing out on what a teacher has & thinks is important. I'm sure there is a lot of great information in this book, but when I have sat down to read it, I lost interest because of the difficulty in reading. I know surveying is not an easy subject, but there are easier ways to explain things. I am not trying to put your book down, but with the talk I have heard about there only being so many surveyors, & many of them being older, maybe we ought to be thinking of everyone who would like to become an RPLS. I have been surveying for many years, & this book should be new & even difficult information, but not so difficult to read that I want to return it. I would think more of the authors if they would write to be more easily understood, than to sound more intelligent to others. A teacher's goal is to be understood. There is nothing more satisfying to him than to be understood by his students.