All About Surveying

POB - Columns from our latest issue

1. Traversing the Law: Maintaining Relevancy in the 21st Century
   I recently attended a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar dealing with building your business in the new economy.
2. Safety Sense: A Two-Minute Inspection That Can Save a Life
   I was talking with a surveyor recently just outside his office. As we were wrapping up our conversation, one of his crew vehicles pulled into the parking lot. Two workers got out of the van, and one opened the passenger-side door to retrieve some equipment. What I observed about that vehicle in just a couple of minutes could have generated both OSHA and law enforcement citations, not to mention possible worker injuries or fatalities.
3. Editor's Points: What Are You Wasting?
   Each year for the past several years, I’ve received a package around the holidays.
4. Unmistakable Marks: Is Necessity the Brother of Intention?
   The basis for the concept of easement by necessity was developed early in the history of English common law. Numerous examples of this concept can be found as far back as the 14th century, including some spirited debates over whether the grant of a pond and the fish in the pond gives the grantee the right to drain the pond and take all of the fish.
5. The Business Side: The Art of Land Surveying
   Why are we licensed as land surveyors? If you look at all the different states’ requirements, the message will come through loud and clear--to protect the public.