I see this crop up in /r/legaladvice a lot where there’s a question of where one person’s property ends or begins, whether something is on someone’s property, etc. and the response is always that they should get a surveyor out to determine where the property lines are. But I don’t understand how that works?
I always figured that something like the title or whatever would already set that out and it’d be pretty clear to a layman precisely where their property begins or ends, but the amount of times there seems to be disputes about it makes it seem like it’s definitely not as simple as that, hence the surveyor.
So what does the surveyor actually do when asked to do this? How do they decide where the property lines are?
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There are benchmarks which are marked locations from which the measurements are made. Now the measurements are taken using laser measuring devices. In the past they used a chain. A transit and surveying pole are used to measure the grade so that they can correct for the rise and fall of the land measuring straight line distance.
Before an area is marked like when we were originally settling America an accurate time peice and a sextant can be used to measure a location using celestial navigation. The first such place measured in the state of Mississippi was in Natches. Then that was used as the first benchmark for measuring the rest of the territory.
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