[Sca-cooks] measurement

[Terry Decker]

>S CLEMENGER wrote:
>
>>So? Just because you survived being inconvenienced, doesn't mean I should 
>>throw myself into sharing the experience with you....
>
> I'm not saying you should.  I'm just saying that it's possible without 
> anything resembling a "holy hash".
>
> (I'm not sure exactly how it _would_ inconvenience an individual 
> landowner, actually...)
>
> -- 
> Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

While it might not inconvenience the individual land owner it would add 
another layer of complexity to an already complex system.

Portions of the United States have been owned by the Dutch, the English, the 
French and the Spanish, each with their own system of measurement, surveying 
and recording.  The property rights of each of these claimants have been 
respected, ignored, abused, and incorporated into the U.S. legal system of 
ownership more or less accurately.  In a number of cases, there have been 
ongoing legal disputes over ownership for 150 years, particularly in the 
case of the Spanish land grants in the Southwest and bad surveys (like those 
done by Bat Masterson around Sweetwater, Texas).

Add to this the fact that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey which is 
responsible for establishing and maintaining the baseline markers for all 
surveys in the U.S. has been using a foot pegged at 1200/3937 meters since 
1866.  The current international foot is 30.48 centimeters and is .999998 of 
a survey foot.  Given the level of detail in a legal description and the 
potential for rounding errors, converting the measurements of the property 
might require a resurvey of the property to insure the metes and bounds are 
accurately described.

Bear