CIVL 5114 - Land Surveying

This course is a study of licensure requirements, professional liability and ethics in land surveying. The legal concepts of the rules of evidence are presented and applied to written and unwritten transfers of land ownership. Riparian rights, fractional conveyances, reversionary rights, problems of apportionment, procedures, both field and office, for locating written title boundaries and the writing of deed descriptions are discussed in both a theoretical and applied sense.