Many states have supplemental, or ‘alternate’ storage systems for filing survey maps that are separate and distinct from the real property records overseen by registers of deeds. While these secondary resources are of great value to surveyors and other land use professionals, their limits should be clearly understood. Whether housed in the county surveyors office,...

While easements are often treated as the 'poor relations' of property rights, the 'Profit a Prendre' often seems a mere afterthought by courts.