missurvey
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noun
An inaccurate survey.
Well, my knowledge, so far as it goes, is that a great many deputy surveyors have misstated facts and made missurveys.
The surveyor is usually called in after the occupation is discovered to be foreign and therefore an encroachment; then the misplacement is found to be the result of a missurvey, or no survey.
verb
To survey inaccurately; to produce a missurvey.
BLM holds this parcel in reserve under the Omitted Lands Act of 1962, which provided BLM with the authority to clear the titles and hold or dispose of lands missurveyed along the course of the Snake River ( Marty Benham, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Falls Office, May 1982, personal communication).
As you know, since 1946, Congress has been trying to resolve the problem of the 105th meridian land that was missurveyed by the Federal Government on our easternmost border.
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6Well, my knowledge, so far as it goes, is that a great many deputy surveyors have misstated facts and made missurveys.
WiktionaryThe surveyor is usually called in after the occupation is discovered to be foreign and therefore an encroachment; then the misplacement is found to be the result of a missurvey, or no survey.
WiktionaryThe case comes so replete with examples of intertribal counterclaims to areas, evidence of missurveys of reservation lands, unconscionable low payments, and so forth that it fairly represents a "stand
WiktionaryBLM holds this parcel in reserve under the Omitted Lands Act of 1962, which provided BLM with the authority to clear the titles and hold or dispose of lands missurveyed along the course of the Snake R
WiktionaryAs you know, since 1946, Congress has been trying to resolve the problem of the 105th meridian land that was missurveyed by the Federal Government on our easternmost border.
WiktionaryA note in the ELP states: "Land sold to Eliab Yeoman, then to John Clapp, then Jesse Oakly and then to David Barker was missurveyed and had to be redone.
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