SUR 4403 : CADASTRAL PRINCIPLES

FALL 2007

Instructor : Dr. Grenville Barnes
Room No : 406B Reed Lab
Phone: 392-4998
Email : gbarnes@ufl.edu

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Objectives: 
To give students an understanding of the basic principles underlying the creation, identification, description and recovery of property boundaries.

Text: Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles,
Brown, Robillard and Wilson
5th Edition, 2003.

Syllabus:
Topic (Reading)

1. Introduction, Rights, Interests and Estates ( Ch. 1)
2. How Boundaries are Created (Ch. 2)
3. Description and Transfer of Real Property ( Ch. 3)
4. Metes and Bounds and Non-Sectionalized Descriptions ( Ch. 5)

QUIZ 1 (covers topics 1 - 4)

5. Locating Sequential Conveyances ( Ch. 11)
6. Locating Simultaneously Created Boundaries ( Ch. 12)
7. Locating Combinations Descriptions (Ch.13)
8. Locating Easements and Reversions ( Ch. 8)
9. Creation of GLO Boundaries ( Ch. 6)
10. Resurveys of PLSS Land ( Ch. 10)

QUIZ 2 (covers topics 4 – 8)

11. Boundary Law and Presumptions ( Ch. 4)
12. Riparian and Littoral Boundaries ( Ch. 9)

FINAL EXAM (covers all topics)

Homework Assignments:
These will be composed of short writing assignments, questions on the reading, boundary description and interpretation problems, a law library research project, research on the Internet, and a courthouse research project. The reading assignments are an important part of this class and you are strongly urged to read the assigned chapters prior to class.

Grading:
Quiz 1……………………………………….. 10%
Quiz 2 ………………………………………. 20%
Homework Assignments ………...................... 35%
Class Participation ……………….................… 5%
Comprehensive Final ………........................... 30%