General

PRINCIPLE II Once established, corners of the Public Lands are fixed in their monumented positions but the government may survey or resurvey its public lands as it chooses.

Lines As Marked and Surveyed

Monuments

Conclusive Evidence Outweighs the Record

Resurvey

Line Trees and Blazed Lines

PRINCIPLE III: The Court will consider the intent of the parties reconstruction of deed descriptions.

General

Closing Corners

Plats

PRINCIPLE IV: The Plat and the field notes are considered together with, and as part of, the grant (patent) itself.

Original Field Notes and Plat

A. An Original Surveyor's Mistake which is Identified will be Considered by the Courts Toward Placing the Entire Blunder where it Occurred.

Place the Blunder W here the Blunder Occurred

B. CORNERS ARE RESTORED BY THE NEAREST AND BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE:

Existent Corner

Obliterated Corner

Lost Corner

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Resurvey

Corner Restoration Fundamentals Resurvey

A resurvey is a reconstruction of land boundaries and subdivisions accomplished by rerunning and remarking the lines represented in the fieldnote record or on the plat of a previous official survey. The two main objectives of the resurvey are:

The adequate protection of existing rights acquired under the original survey in the matter of location on the earth’s surface.
The proper marking of the boundaries of the remaining public lands.

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