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
1
Introduction to
Boundary
Surveying and
Real Property
Lecture Content
Classes Start
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,
HW
HW Content
common, statutory,
administrative, find law,
HW Wk1
2
Chain of Title,
Deeds, Estates
Assurances of
Title
Creation of
Land
Boundaries-Land Location
Systems
Writing land
descriptions
HW2
Deeds and Estates,
Research a Chain of Title
HW3
Find deeds for each type
of desc.
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
4
Read the Law – read two
cases, compare analyze.
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.
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
3
HW1
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
5
Interpreting
Descriptions,
Using Text
Principles,
Writing
Surveyor's
Reports
HW4
West Palm
HW5
First Case – Junior and
Senior Rights
HW6
HW7
300x100
Frosts
#8
#9
Palm Court
Palm Harbor
#10
Sipe
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
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
HW Wk7
MIDTERM EXAM
COVERING MODULES 1-6
7
HW Wk 8
HW Wk 9
8
Hw Wk 10
Locating Lot
and Block
Simultaneous
Deeds
Locating
Sectional
Survey Deeds
Lect 23: 15 Principles
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.
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
9
Unwritten
Rights Possession
Principles
#11
Sec 1&2
#12
Poss.Princ.Cases
#13
Massasuppi
#14
Apportionment
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
10
HW Wk 13
11
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.
Roads and
Water as
Boundaries
Lect 33: Roads as Boundaries
Lect 34: Apportionment
Problems, riparian rights, road
reversions
HW Wk 14
Wk 15/16
FINAL EXAM COVERING
ALL MODULES