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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
CET 59B | Title:
BNDRY CNTRL/LEG PRN |
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| Full Title:
Boundary Control & Legal Principles |
| Last Reviewed:2/9/2015 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 17.5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade Only
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Introduction to the procedure and legal principles, history and current concepts of property line location. Designed for those in the fields of surveying, engineering, title insurance or real estate.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Civil Engineering 59A with grade of "C" or better
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Preq: CET 59A with "C" or better. Intro to procedures, legal principles, historical & current concepts of property line location. (Grade only) COURSE RENUMBERED TO CEST 59B - 94/95.
(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:Civil Engineering 59A with grade of "C" or better
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | Fall 2021 |
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| UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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The students will:
1. List the methods of describing land boundaries and ownership.
2. Demonstrate their knowledge of legal descriptions by completing
various deeds including easements and riparian rights.
3. Demonstrate their knowledge of the Federal Rules as applied to
public land surveys by constructing Federal land survey plots,
and other standard documents.
4. Evaluate several deeds and determine the order of importance of
conflicting title elements.
5. List the steps in restoration of lost corners.
6. Compute single and double proportion on adjoining subdivision
boundaries.
7. Define and give an illustrative example of riparian and littoral
ownership.
Topics and Scope
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1. Methods of describing land.
2. Transfer of real property.
3. Ownership and land location.
4. Locating sequence conveyances.
5. Simultaneous conveyances created by State Laws.
6. Legal principles of retracement under Federal rules.
7. Combination of sequence and simultaneous conveyances.
8. Locating reversion rights.
9. Riparian and littoral owners.
Assignments:
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Reading, writing, and computational assignments include:
1. Legal description techniques and methods.
2. Written and unwritten rights.
3. Property of monuments, directions and distances.
4. General requirements of land conveyance.
5. Order of importance of conflicting elements that determine land
location.
6. Sectionalized lands and Federal rules including proportional
measurements, list corners, meander lines, and nonriparian rights.
7. "Of" descriptions within subdivisions and adjoining streets,
metes and bounds and other descriptions.
8. Parallel and nonparallel lines.
9. Lots adjoining a subdivision boundary.
10. Riparian rights - navigable waters, accretion, avulsion and revulsion.
11. Conditions of navigability.
12. Tidal datum planes, tide lands and submerged lands.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
10 - 20% |
| Essay exams | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
10 - 30% |
| Homework problems, Exams, DEED DESCRIPTIONS | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
20 - 30% |
| Performance exams | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
15 - 30% |
| Multiple choice, Matching items, Completion | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 0% |
| None | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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BOUNDARY CONTROL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES, 2nd ed. by Brown; John Wiley.
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