rules of the game: What is a Corner--Really?

摘要

My previous article began a discussion of Griffin's Rules based on his treatise, Retracement and Apportionment as Surveying Methods for Re-establishing Property Corner (Marquette Law Review, 43: 484-510). The article also centered around corners: lost verus obliterated, and the important court case Rivers v. Lozeau regarding property corners. The word "corner" should always be emphasized in the land surveyor's mind, since the corner is what retracement, and sometimes apportionment, is all about. So, exactly, what then is a corner? Looking first at a definition, a corner has been defined by the court system as the intersection of two converging lines or surfaces; an angle, whether internal or external; the "corner" of a building, the four "corners" of a square, the "corner" of two streets. A mere variation in a line does not constitute a "corner" (Christian v. Gernt. et al., Tenn. Ch., 64 S.W. 399 [1900]).