Understanding Land Surveys, Legal Descriptions and Boundaries Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
This program is now being offered as an online webinar.
To register, please visit: https://www.halfmoonseminars.org/seminars/133333/understanding-land-surveys-legal-descriptions-and-boundaries-seminar/online
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:30 pm
Ordering and Reviewing Land Surveys
Boundary survey standards
Research and investigation
Mortgage inspection plats
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
Reviewing title issues disclosed on sample survey plats
Writing and Interpreting Legal Descriptions
What is a legal description?
Who can write a legal description?
Types of legal descriptions
United States Public Land Survey System
Metes and bounds system/descriptions
“Of” descriptions
Some key words in legal descriptions
Some words we can do without in legal descriptions
Determining what controls in a legal description
Order of importance of conflicting title elements
Corners and monuments
Lot and block descriptions (subdivisions)
United States Public Land System
Metes and Bounds System/descriptions
Locating Land Boundaries
History of land boundaries
Evidence of boundary location
• Words as evidence (written and verbal)
• Monuments as evidence
• Occupation as evidence (possession lines)
• Plats as evidence
Interpreting evidence
Evidence and technology
“Boundary” line vs. “property” line
Sequential conveyances and simultaneous conveyances
• Senior/junior rights
State boundary surveying standards
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey standards
Surveyor’s role in boundary disputes
Credits
Ohio Attorneys
6.5 Ohio CLE Hours
6.5 Indiana CLE Hours
6.5 Kentucky CLE Hours
Ohio Title Insurance Producers
6.5 Title CE Hours
Ohio Land Surveyors &
Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. The Ohio Supreme Court Commission on CLE has approved this course for 6.5 general CLE hours. It is also approved for 6.5 general CLE hours for Indiana and Kentucky attorneys.
The Ohio Department of Insurance has approved this course for 6.5 Title insurance continuing education hours.
This course offers 6.5 PDHs to Ohio professional land surveyors and professional engineers to whom the subject matter is professionally relevant. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.