Brown's boundary control and legal principles / Walter G. Robillard, B.S., M.A., L.L.M., J.D. Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina licensed land surveyor, attorney at law; Donald A. Wilson, B.S., M.S. Maine and New Hampshire licensed land surveyor, registered professional forester ; based on the original ideas and concepts created by Curtis M. Brown.

Includes index.

History and concept of boundaries -- How boundaries are created -- Ownership, transfer, and description of real property & accompanying rights -- Boundaries, law, and related presumptions -- Creation and interpretation of metes and bounds and other non-sectionalized descriptions -- Creation and retracement of glo boundaries -- Federal and state non- sectionalized land surveys -- Locating easements and reversions -- Riparian and littoral boundaries -- Retracing and ?resurveying? sectionalized lands -- Locating sequential conveyances -- Locating simultaneously created boundaries -- Locating combination descriptions and conveyances -- Role of the surveyor -- The ethics and moral responsibilities of boundary creation and of retracements.