Womble Bond Dickinson and Search Acumen case study – The challenge of historical mapping practices
For years real estate lawyers have been burdened with undertaking cumbersome property boundary map searches to identify titles in their chosen area.
Traditionally this involved the submission of a plan coloured in by hand and divided over multiple pieces of paper that subsequently required piecing together as if it were a jigsaw puzzle. Next, lawyers would send off their artwork to the Land Registry and wait between six to eight weeks to receive back the official boundary map in a bulky cardboard tube, at a significant cost to the client.
Using this method, unsurprisingly, problems with accuracy were rife. The final map would only be as good as the colouring skills of the lawyer who illustrated the search plan. Discrepancies between the coloured plan and the official map received from the Land Registry would be a frequent occurrence, and boundary and ownership issues would be missed.
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