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Interpretation of Ordnance Survey maps and of aerial photographs

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Finding your way through the mire of a boundary dispute - JMB31

The Starting Point

The situation that you find yourself in

The place you are trying to get to

There are options as to which route you may follow

Achieving a permanent record of the boundary

The long, winding and potentially expensive road

3 pages of A4

Created 25 Sep 2023

Finding your way through the mire of a boundary dispute

Boundaries Essentials - JMB37

How and by whom are boundaries created and described?

What are the limitations of Land Registry's title plans?

When should you ask for professional (i.e. a surveyor's) help
and when should you ask for legal help with a boundary?

What Alternative Dispute Resolution matters are available?

What does a judge consider when trying a boundary dispute?

3 pages of A4

Updated 04 Aug 2023

Boundaries Essentials

Getting professional help with a Boundary Dispute - JMB38

How the low standard of boundary descriptions forced Land Registry
to adopt a "general boundaries" system of land registration.

How the "general boundaries" system severely limits the ability
of professionals and lawyers to efficiently deal with the resolution of boundary disputes.

What can your boundary surveyor do for you?

3 pages of A4

Updated 14 Feb 2020

Getting professional help
with a boundary dispute

Guide to Resolving Boundary Disputes - JMB33

The different ways of resolving a boundary dispute:

Alternative Disputes Resolution methods

An outline of what to expect from each method.

4 pages of A4

Updated 09 Jan 2023

Guide to Resolving
Boundary Disputes

Documentary evidence for investigating a Boundary - JMB32

Examples of the kinds of documents that are commonly used as evidence in boundary investigations.

Tile Register and Title Plan

Title Deeds: i.e. Conveyances and Transfers of Part

Sellers Property Information Form

Estate Agent's sales particulars

Planning drawings

old Ordnance Survey maps

old aerial photographs

other photographs

An outline of what to expect from each method.

4 pages of A4

Updated 14 Feb 2020

Documentary evidence for
investigating a Boundary

Why you should not use Land Registry's title plans to establish the exact line of a property boundary - JMB39

Title plans are required by law to show only the general position of a boundary.
In other words, they do not show the exact line of the boundary.

Title plans are required by law to be based on Ordnance Survey maps.
Ordnance Survey maps do not, by law, show or affect property boundaries.

Ordnance Survey maps are insufficiently accurate as a vehicle for portraying the exact line of a boundary.

The overwhelming majority of title plans are produced as a desk exercise and without a site visit to check that the plan matches what is present on the ground.

3 pages of A4

Updated 11 Jan 2024

Why you cannot rely on Land Registry's title plans - JMB39

Why "Setting out" your boundary from a title plan is WRONG - JMB36

Title plans show only the general position, not the exact line, of a boundary.

Attempting to mark out on the ground the mapped position of the "general boundary"
is guaranteed to provoke rather than settle a boundary dispute.

1 page of A4

Updated 15 Feb 2020

Why Setting out your boundary
from a title plan is WRONG

Boundaries Terminology - JMB35

Much jargon is used in connection with boundary disputes.

The legal profession's lack of a recognised dictionary or glossary of such terms
only serves to cloud the mystery surrounding boundary investigations and boundary disputes,

To rectify this situation, the present web site produced its own glossary
of boundaries terminology in November 2011.

This information paper presents a revised version of that glossary.

2 pages of A4

Updated 10 Jan 2024

Boundaries Terminology

Using DIMENSIONS
found in conveyane deeds & plans - JMB40

The courts are prone to place credibility on dimensions found in conveyance deeds.

The reality is that there is no knowledge of their accuracy,
they do not conform to scientific principles, and
much artifice and artistry is required when interpreting an aged set
of dimensions onto the modern layout of the land.

This paper explains the shortcomings and a method for overcoming the pitfalls.

1 page of A4

Created 10 Jan 2024

Using DIMENSIONS
found in conveyances

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