CSLB Professional Challenge: Cadastral Law case studies
CSLB Professional Challenge: Cadastral Law · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The CSLB Professional Challenge in Cadastral Law is a multiple-choice assessment of how well a candidate reasons through boundary law as it is actually practiced: retracing public land survey corners, weighing conflicting boundary evidence, and interpreting the deeds and maps that describe land. It is aimed at licensed land surveyors, survey technicians preparing for licensure, title and escrow professionals, right-of-way agents, and attorneys or paralegals who work with boundary disputes and legal descriptions. The CSLB Professional Challenge: Cadastral Law case studies are 5 cases and about 3,304 words.
1The Lost East Quarter Corner of Section 14
You are retracing Section 14, T4N, R2E, SBM. Your crew finds the 1856 GLO monuments at the SE and NE section corners in place, one carrying a legible scribed bearing-tree stub.
585 words, about 3 min2East Half vs. Six Chains: Senior Rights on Lot 9
Lot 9 of the old Perkins subdivision is 8.00 chains wide by 15.00 chains deep, 12.00 acres on the 1897 plat. In 1902 the common owner conveyed to Hale 'the east half of Lot 9, containing 6 acres, more or less, together with the barn at the north end.' In 1911 the same grantor conveyed to Ordway a parcel 'beginning at the NE corner of Lot 9; thence S 89 30 W 6.00 chains to an oak; thence S 0 20 W to the south line; thence E to the SE corner; thence N to the beginning.' Your 2019 retracement finds the NE corner monument, measures the lot's north line at 8.14 chains, and finds the oak called for in Ordway's deed at 5.60 chains from that corner.
657 words, about 3 min3The South Fork Leaves Its Bed
The Reyes parcel is Lot 3 on the 1871 GLO plat, bordering the South Fork. The plat meanders the river 9.00 chains north of the lot's south line and returns 14.20 acres; the field notes record the river 40 feet wide at that point.
714 words, about 4 min4The Barn in the County's Thirty Feet
In 1958 Owen conveyed to the County 'a strip of land 30 feet wide for road purposes, being the west 30 feet of the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4,' for nominal consideration. The county paved 24 feet and maintained it.
690 words, about 3 min5The Monument the Client Wants Forgotten
You are retracing Parcel B for a sale closing in ten days. At the northwest corner you recover a 1904 concrete monument with a legible 'B' and, 1.2 feet east of it, a 1996 iron pipe set by a licensed surveyor whose recorded map shows the same corner.
658 words, about 3 min