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18-Geom-A6 Cadastral Studies: December 2015

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  1. Question 1 A Surveyor's Opinion That Differs From the Court's
  2. Question 2 Does a Cadastral Boundary Have a Width?
  3. Question 3 Do Land Surveyors "Make" Boundaries?
  4. Question 4 Dale on the Cost of High-Precision Cadastral Surveys
  5. Question 5 Larsson on Private and Public Benefits of Land Documentation

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National Exams — December 2015 — 04-Geom-A6 Cadastral Studies. Three hours; closed book; no calculator permitted. Format: five questions of equal value (25% each); any four constitute a complete paper, and all answers are required in essay format, with clarity and organization expressly marked. All five questions are solved in full below. Legal and land-registration content is framed in the Canadian context (the common-law standard of care; provincial land-title / Torrens and registry systems; Canadian cadastral institutions and case law).

Reference texts: Survey Law in Canada (Canadian Council of Land Surveyors / Carswell, 1989); Brown, Robillard, Wilson & others, Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles (7th ed., Wiley, 2017); P. F. Dale, Cadastral Surveys within the Commonwealth (HMSO, 1976); G. Larsson, Land Registration and Cadastral Systems (Longman Scientific & Technical, 1991); FIG, Statement on the Cadastre (1995) and ISO 19152 Land Administration Domain Model (LADM); Engineers and Geoscientists BC / provincial land-surveyor statutes and standards of practice; H. Demsetz, "Toward a Theory of Property Rights," Am. Econ. Rev. 57 (1967).