With over 20 years of Land Surveying experience, Mr. Charles Lee Iner, Registered Professional Land Surveyor, has the knowledge and capabilities to provide expert witness testimony. Mr. Iner has been a consultant to the legal profession in the following areas of expertise: Boundary Disputes Right of Way and Easement Disputes Right of Way Taking Issues
Highway surveying is a specialized type of land surveying generally conducted for government agencies during the planning stages of a highway development project. During the construction process, a highway construction survey can ensure that progress is occurring as it should, and that the highway is located precisely where it should be. After the highway is
If an automotive or other vehicle or roadway-related accident has recently happened, you may need to have an accident survey conducted. In many cases, the highway patrol officers themselves may use surveying equipment at the scene of an accident for their own records. For example, the California Highway Patrol has purchased several ScanStations and Total
When it comes to land surveys, the deed description is essential to any property record. Writing a deed description is basically about taking the ‘house on Main Street’ and describing it in a much more descriptive manner to demonstrate exactly where the property is located, what its measurements are and what is nearby. Property descriptions
For a variety of reasons, on occasion two neighboring land owners may come into a dispute about conflicting property boundaries. Why do land boundaries sometimes conflict? Most often, boundary disputes arise after confusing legal descriptions prompt two landowners to lay claim to the same tract of land. The deeds in question may actually describe the
An easement is defined as the right to use, cross or access another’s piece of land without assuming ownership. Although sometimes they may significantly affect the value of the land, in many cases easements are simply a fact of life, and there are many types of easements that you may not even be aware of,
Land surveying is a complicated business, and for that reason there are quite a few misconceptions about what it is and why people need it. If you are considering whether to have a land survey done on your property (or property you plan to buy), chances are you have fallen prey to one or more
Real-time construction staking, like real-time surveying, can be a much better process than using other methods if it is performed by a professional land surveyor. Having to process data from a survey conducted with older technology can take up valuable time and resources that don’t need to be utilized anymore. Using Real Time Kinematic (RTK)
When first asked to name a famous land surveyor, most people assume there aren’t any. However, this is far from the truth; there have been, in fact, many famous land surveyors throughout history, though they usually achieve fame for other reasons. The reason for this is that most professionals in the past worked concurrently at
One of the most interesting examples of land surveying efforts from centuries past is William the Conqueror’s famous Domesday Book (pronounced “DOOMS-day”). Created in 1086 AD, this book took two years to compile and contains information on more than 14,000 settlements in England, including the names of all landowners, the amount of land owned and