Meaning of missurvey | Babel Free

Definitions

An inaccurate survey.

Examples

“Well, my knowledge, so far as it goes, is that a great many deputy surveyors have⟳ misstated facts and made missurveys.”

“The surveyor is usually called in after the occupation is discovered to be foreign and therefore an encroachment; then the misplacement is found to be the result⟳ of a missurvey, or no survey.”

“The case comes so replete with examples of intertribal counterclaims to areas, evidence of missurveys of reservation lands, unconscionable low payments, and so forth that it fairly represents a "standard" case, if such exists.”

“In the 1870s, R.h. Milroy, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Washington Territory, recommended to the Department of the Interior that an additional executive order⟳ correct⟳ the missurvey of 1856 with regard to the ownership of tidelands.”

“Have⟳ you ever heard of a missurvey suit⟳ winning?”

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