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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