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

Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location, 5th Edition - Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Nature, Scope, and Definition of Evidence
• Verbal Evidence
• Technology as Evidence
• Other Evidence
• Measurements as Evidence
• Plats as Evidence
• Evidence of Water Boundaries
• Historical Knowledge as Evidence
• Preservation of Evidence
• Procedures for Locating Boundaries Described in Writings and on Maps
• Original Surveys and Platting Laws
• Unwritten Transfers of Land Ownership
• Guarantees of Title and Location
• Understanding and Writing Property 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