Cadastral Survey

CADASTRAL SURVEY

Cadastral survey (or previously known as title survey) refers to survey of land and strata lots for the purposes of registration of land-ownership, issues of land titles and other land-related matters. It involves the demarcation of property boundaries and determination of areas and is regulated under the provisions of the Boundaries & Survey Maps Act.

One of the primary roles of the land surveyor is to determine the boundary of real property on the ground. That boundary has already been established and described in legal documents and official plans and maps prepared by attorneys, engineers, and other land surveyors. The corners of the property will either have been monumented by a prior surveyor, or monumented by the surveyor hired to perform a survey of a new boundary which has been agreed upon by adjoining land owners.