Agenda

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Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before the start time.

Thursday, January 18, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm EST

 

Presented by: Barry Savage PLS

Researching and Interpreting Land Records

• Title research vs. boundary research
• Historical research
• Genealogy and research
• What measurements really mean in a land description
• Importance of the words we use in descriptions
• Resolving conflicts in land evidence

Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements

• What is and is not an easement
• Reviewing state law on easements
• Creating easements: easements by necessity, easements by use, written easements
• Identifying critical distinctions between easements in gross, easements appurtenant
  and prescriptive easements
• Maintaining easements
• Knowing when and how to terminate easements
• Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction
• Utility easements

Writing Land Descriptions

• Types of descriptions
• Tennessee’s little known public land descriptions
• Writing descriptions from the qualitative to the quantitative
• Examples of good and bad descriptions
• Do’s and don’t of writing descriptions

Understanding Water Rights and Riparian Boundaries

• Equal Footing Doctrine
• Definitions of navigability
• Public Use Doctrine
• Researching water rights
• Riparian boundaries
• Determining high and low water for boundary determination
• Examining PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana

Trespass, Adverse Possession and Other Unauthorized Access to Land

• Elements of civil trespass to land
• Reviewing the history of adverse possession
• Maintaining a claim for adverse possession
  • Statute of limitations
  • Elements of a claim
• Defending against a claim for adverse possession
• Examining recent adverse possession cases

 

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