missurvey

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An inaccurate survey.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To survey inaccurately

   To survey inaccurately; to produce a missurvey.

   • As you know, since 1946, Congress has been trying to resolve the problem of the 105th meridian land that was missurveyed by the Federal Government on our easternmost border.
   • A note in the ELP states: "Land sold to Eliab Yeoman, then to John Clapp, then Jesse Oakly and then to David Barker was missurveyed and had to be redone.

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