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18-Geom-B5 Survey Law: May 2014

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  1. Question 1 Primary Sources of Real Property Law in Canada
  2. Question 2 The Elements Required to Create an Easement
  3. Question 3 Qualities of Title Under the Ontario Land Registry
  4. Question 4 "Water Boundaries Are Ambulatory"
  5. Question 5 Four Common Methods of Creating a "Road"
  6. Question 6 Justice Cooley — "How the Original Stakes Located Them"
  7. Question 7 Proportioning and Priority of Severance
  8. Question 8 Land Titles Does Not Guarantee the Description Matches the Boundary
  9. Question 9 Hierarchy of Evidence and the Rank of NAD83 Coordinates
  10. Question 10 Primary Real-Property Elements of a Condominium
  11. Question 11 Three Ontario Original-Township Survey Systems
  12. Question 12 Definitions, Examples, and Applications

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National Exams — May 2014 — 04-Geom-B5 Survey Law. Three hours; CLOSED BOOK, NO CALCULATOR. Twelve questions constitute a complete paper (the first twelve as they appear are marked); most answers require sentence-and-paragraph format. All twelve questions are solved in full below. Content is framed in the Canadian common-law and Ontario land-registration context named by the source.

Reference texts: Survey Law in Canada (Canadian Council of Land Surveyors / Carswell, 1989); Brown, Robillard & Wilson, Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles (7th ed., Wiley, 2017); Ontario Land Surveyor educational materials and the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) Survey Review; the Land Titles Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.5, the Registry Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. R.20, the Surveys Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.30, and the Condominium Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c. 19; Re Ellenborough Park, [1956] Ch. 131 (C.A.).