Article: Marketable record title act. There seems to be an ongoing debate in the surveying community over the amount and extent of the land surveyor's obligations related to title search.(traversingthelaw)(Marketable Record Title Act )

There are those who advocate that the surveyor is obligated to search title back to original patents to discover all possible junior/senior rights issues and to resolve those issues on each and every survey. This group of surveyors is clearly interested in performing property surveys, as opposed to boundary surveys. There is a difference between the two. The other school of thought is that the surveyor's responsibility is to put the deed description on the ground and then show all resulting gaps, overlaps, encroachments and apparent adverse claims, leaving the resolution of those matters to others. These are the surveyors who purport to survey boundaries, as opposed to ...

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