Land Tenure and Cadastral Systems

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Land tenure, cadastral systems, real property law, methods of acquiring rights in land, boundary concepts, cadastral survey computations, land registration systems, entity relationship models of land tenure systems, case law of boundary systems. History of cadastral systems, land administration, fiscal and juridical cadastres, dominion land systems, land registration in Alberta, special types of surveys relating to Canada Lands, structure of professional surveying bodies in Canada. Prerequisite(s): Geomatics Engineering 401 and 421; and 3 units from Engineering 213, Communications Studies 363 or Strategy and Global Management 217.