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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
CET 59A | Title:
BNDRY CNTRL/LEG PRN |
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| Full Title:
Boundary Control & Legal Principles |
| Last Reviewed:12/13/2021 |
| 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 | 8 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:
Completion of CET 50B and 51 or equivalents with grades of "C" or better.
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Preq: CET 50B & CET 51, or equiv, with "C" or better. Intro to procedures, legal principles, historical & current concepts of property line location. (Grade only) COURSE RENUMBERED TO CEST 59A - 94/95.
(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:Completion of CET 50B and 51 or equivalents with grades 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: | |
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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. Summarize the historical development of current land law in the
U.S. and California.
2. Identify the concept of evidence and list in order the principles
of evidence.
3. Interpret various deeds and develop a sketch of the boundary.
4. Analyze several different survey units of measurements and determine
the error and accuracy of each measurement.
5. Prepare legal descriptions from survey plots.
6. Compare legal descriptions and determine junior and senior rights.
Topics and Scope
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1. Historical development of property surveying.
2. Survey measurements, errors and computation.
3. Evidence.
4. Preservation of evidence.
5. Location establishment by statutory proceedings.
6. Procedures for locating written title boundaries.
7. Apportionment procedures for land and water boundaries.
8. Plotting laws and original surveys.
9. Survey plots.
10. Writing descriptions.
Assignments:
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Written and computational assignments related to:
1. Relation of land surveying to contemporary society.
2. Concept of ownership, title development used by Western civilization
up to American Colonial period.
3. Concepts of English common law.
4. Surveying units and measurments, including errors and accuracy.
5. Chain of evidence, conclusions and proof.
6. Origin of ownership and title.
7. Practical application of evidence to surveying practice of boundary
location.
8. Boundary location by statuatory proceedings; quiet title, eminent
domain.
9. California law and recording procedures.
10. Interpreting deeds.
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 - 30% |
| Essay exams | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
10 - 20% |
| Homework problems, Exams, DEED DESCRIPTION | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
30 - 40% |
| Performance exams, DEED INTERPRETATION | |
| 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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EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURES FOR BOUNDARY CONTROL, 2nd ed. by Brown,
Robillard and Wilson; Wiley-Interscience.
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