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    basic laws, which are Constitution law, statute law, common law, case law, and the administrative law. The chapter includes six principles which illustrate these laws and presumptions. Constitutional law of The United States controlled law of the lands, and whether you’re a citizen or non-citizen, your property will be controlled by this law which cause few problems for a surveyor while surveying. The further information on this law, described the license of surveyor and about the amendments to rules

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    it talks about the creation of the PLS system. As a new nation was created there had to be a system put in place in order to keep from arguments erupting over land, this system was created by a committee led by Thomas Jefferson in 1784. This system although having some weaknesses is still used today to divide land. There are two main systems used in the United States these are the metes and bounds and the GLO system. 6.2 This section describes that no survey is final until all paperwork is completed

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    The Federal and State Nonsectionalized Land Surveys, in which states that surveys have been sanctioned not only by the federal agencies but also by the government agencies. The chapter included five principles, where they have given a proper description about the Federal and State Nonsectionalized Land Surveys in area and their prospect. They Described about Early New England and other Colonial-Era Surveys, in which they mentioned some terms, Lottery, Land Division, Pitches, reservations, and Special

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    registration of deeds, selling or interchanged of property, state land lease documents and site plan were solely on hardcopy. Deeds search was done by manual procedures, which mean an individual has to go through many archived books to search a specific document. From 2010 onwards, the Registrar-General's Department has been using a computer platform which has modernised land administration. This has been possible when the Information Management System (IMS) has been put in place by the Government. Following

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    It is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) widely used for urban master planning for brown field. It is a spatial attribute of world co-ordinate system. GIS is kind of software in which you can see the entire world spatial map. It is a master plan for re-development of Jamshedpur. GIS is a geographic information system working with maps. It is used for creating maps and compiling geographic data and analyzing mapped information. This geographic information using maps and managing the geographic

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    Interior Department had a wide range of responsibilities entrusted to it: the construction of the national capital's water system, the colonization of freed slaves in Haiti,

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    Software Requirement means a condition or capability that must be met or possess by a system to satisfy a contract, standard, specification or other formally imposed document. In this we come across with three types of requirements: • User requirements: It provides the details of services required under which the system must operate smoothly. • Functional Requirements: It describes an interaction between the system and its environment. In which the functional requirements must correct, complete, consistent

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    Introduction 1.1 Preview An online land registry system is an electronic database of land records accessible via a web interface and designed to generate reports containing relevant ownership information on parcels of land as identified by their unique land reference numbers (LR. No). 1.2 Background and Rationale Cases of fraud involving land and forged title deeds in Kenya are on the increase. This problem has led to increased awareness when transacting in land due to fear of losing money to con

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    to title defects, survey defects, title fraud encroachments etc. It originated in United States due to shortcomings of the inadequate deed registry system. In 1876 a group of Philadelphia conveyancers founded the very first title insurance company; the company claimed that it would secure the purchaser’s real estate and mortgages against losses from defective title, liens and encumbrances (McAndrews, 2012). Although initial use of title insurance in Canada was to facilitate land transactions involving

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    The decision of switching to a coordinate based cadaster is an ongoing debate. Canada’s original cadastral survey (The Dominion Land Survey) of Western Canada begun in 1871. The first cadastral maps showed boundaries and ownership of land parcels. Some provided information such as section or lot numbers, adjoining street names, boundary dimensions and references to prior maps. On one hand some think legal boundaries should always be defined by physical monuments while others see a need for boundaries

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