Posts by Lake Property Law PLC

THE ABOVE PHOTO DEPICTS A SMALL PORTION OF A BODY OF WATER IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN. A FENCE RUNNING PERPENDICULAR TO IT INDICATES A DIFFERENCE IN THE SAND LEVEL WIDTH OF THE BEACHES. “IS THE WATER RIPARIAN? CAN YOU TELL BY THE PHOTO”? IF SO, “WHERE DOES THE LAND OWNERSHIP END AND THE WATER BODY OWNERSHIP,…

Congress created what are our lands and water bodies by several different survey statutes from 1785 to 1832. This creation is known as the Public Land Survey System. It determined our land acreages to the 100th decimal of each fraction of a section, whole section and township. For every meandered water body, acreage was excluded…