SUR 4403 Cadastral Principles

Getting Started/ the Weekly Process:

1. Lectures: Find lecture links, and home work assignments on the course website.

To view a lecture, click on the blue lecture link. These files are large. After allowing some time for "buffering" they should stream OK. If you have trouble with streaming them from the server, "right click" "save target as" and save the file to your hard disk. Then view it from there. Some of these lectures were my lectures recorded in the 1990's – but since this topic is very "stable" and "unchanging", the material is still pertinent.

2. Lecture Quizzes: View the supporting lectures for each HW before starting the HW. After viewing the lectures, take the "Lecture Quiz" as posted on the Test/Quizzes/Assessment tool of ELearning.

3. Home Work: Find the HWs assigned on UF ELearning in the "Assignment" tool. Upload your solution, usually a *.doc or *.docx through ELearning. I'll grade it and return comments to you. The grade will then appear in the grade book on ELearning.

4. Examinations: The Test/Quizzes tool will also show the date and time of our Midterm and Final examinations. This exam is to be proctored. Find the proctor information on the ELearning homepage.

You are paced by the dates and times of the Midterm and Final examinations shown on the ELearning Quiz/Assessment tool. Mark these dates down on your calendar. Complete all Lectures and HWs covered by those exams before those dates.

5. Get the book: Secure the book posted on the course website. You can find it on Amazom.com or similar national book sites.

6. Grading: Study the course syllabus as posted on the course website. Make sure you understand the grading process and how your final grade will be determined.

OK, you can start watching lectures getting ready for the Lecture Quizzes and HW1. To stay on schedule, complete the lectures and associated HW in a week. We have 14 HWs, for about 14 weeks in the term. In a summer term, we only have 12/13 weeks to complete all, so work ahead.

Module / Module Title / Lecture Content / HW / HW Content
Classes Start
1 / Introduction to Boundary Surveying and Real Property / Lect 1: Intro Boundary Surveying, duty of surveyor
Lect 2: Real Property, real property interests, estates, ways of gaining RPIs
Lect 3: Land Title Concepts, origin of title, title developments, conveyancing, statute of frauds,
Lect 4: System of Law, common, statutory, administrative, find law,
HW Wk1 / HW1 / Read the Law – read two cases, compare analyze.
2 / Chain of Title, Deeds, Estates / Lect 5: Chain of Title, discovery, basket, Public Lands, chain of title, two branches.
Lect 6: Types of Deeds Estates, fee simple, conditional estates, remainders, deed types, WD, QCD, LC., Mortgage, Will, parts of a deed.
Assurances of Title / Lect 7: Land Tenure Systems/Assurances Title, Recording System, title insurance, abstract, Registration System, Torrens
Lect 8: Location Title, survey, Schedule B, Life of Land Parcel, conception, gestation, birth, infancy, maturity, old age.
Lect 9: Resolution of Boundary Problems, conflict res., trial court, appeals court, quiet title, ejectment, exchange QCDs, boundary agreement, special WD
HW Wk2 / HW2 / Deeds and Estates, Research a Chain of Title
3 / Creation of Land Boundaries--Land Location Systems / Lect 10: Objectives of Land Location System, common intent, words match intent, description discloses shape, marked on ground, title identity, future locatability.
Lect 11: Single lots system (sequence), evaluation.
Lect 12: Multiple Lots, monumentation, evaluation, USPLSS corners
Lect 13: Multiple Lots, protraction, evaluation
HW Wk3 / HW3 / Find deeds for each type of desc.
4 / Writing land descriptions / Lect 14: Writing Legal Descriptions, parts, POC, POB, lines, curves, adjoiners, closing clauses
Lect 15: Writing Descriptions, non-tangent curves, cusps, water boundaries
Lect 16: Dividing Line Descriptions, distance, fraction, area, bounded by
Lect 17: Sectional Breakdown Descriptions, center of section rule, mid point rule
HW Wk4 / HW4 / West Palm
5 / Interpreting Descriptions, Using Text Principles, Writing Surveyor's Reports / Lect 21: Describing True Intent
Lect 22:Text Principles and a Surveyor's Report
Lect 18: Function and Purpose of Boundary Survey, deed lines, ownership lines, stages of a survey, drawing content,
HW Wk5 / HW5 / First Case – Junior and Senior Rights
6 / Locating Sequence Deeds / Lect 19: Rule of Intent, written intent, called monuments control, creation scenario
Lect 20: Corner Classification and Dignity of Calls, existent, obliterated, lost, presumed order of importance
HW Wk6 / HW6 / 300x100
HW Wk7 / HW7 / Frosts
MIDTERM EXAM COVERING MODULES 1-6
7 / Locating Lot and Block Simultaneous Deeds / Lect 23: 15 Principles
HW Wk 8 / #8 / Palm Court
HW Wk 9 / #9 / Palm Harbor
8 / Locating Sectional Survey Deeds / Lect 24: U.S. Public Land Survey System, History and Methods, 1785, GLO, equipment, markings
Lect 25: Following the Footsteps, outs, initial point, PM, baseline, std parallels, townships, sectionalization, plat drafting.
Hw Wk 10 / #10 / Sipe
Lect 26: Platting and Protracting a Township in the PLSS, regular parts, government lots, fractional sections,
Lect 27: Retracement Surveys in the PLSS, corner classifications, proving a corner, stumps, proportional measure.
HW Wk 11 / #11 / Sec 1&2
9 / Unwritten Rights - Possession Principles / Lect 28: Possession Principles, Adverse Possession, five common law elements, adverse, actual, continuous, exclusive, open. tacking, color of title.
Lect 29: Prescription, Implied Dedication
Lect 30 Possession Principles, Estoppel, Acquiescence, Agreement
HW Wk 12 / #12 / Poss.Princ.Cases
10 / Water Boundaries and Riparian Rights / Lect 31: Water Boundaries, riparian rights, tidal vs. non tidal, navigable vs non nav., tide datums MHW, OHWM,
Lect 32: Riparian Rights, ambulatory boundary, avulsion, accretion, erosion, reliction, apportionment.
HW Wk 13 / #13 / Massasuppi
11 / Roads and Water as Boundaries / Lect 33: Roads as Boundaries
Lect 34: Apportionment Problems, riparian rights, road reversions
HW Wk 14 / #14 / Apportionment
Wk 15/16 / FINAL EXAM COVERING ALL MODULES