Proportionate Measure

Often the best available evidence of the original location of a corner is the method by which it was originally established. The best method or combination of methods used to restore the lost corner may be obtained by following the footsteps (or methods) of the original surveyors.

If lost corners are to be relocated by proportionate measure, “the new values given to the several parts as determined by the re-measurement shall bear the same relation to the record lengths as the new measurement of the whole line bears to that record.”