Meaning

An inaccurate survey..

Definitions by Sense

1. An inaccurate survey.
2. To survey inaccurately; to produce a missurvey.

Example Sentences

Well, my knowledge, so far as it goes, is that a great many deputy surveyors have misstated facts and made missurveys.

The surveyor is usually called in after the occupation is discovered to be foreign and therefore an encroachment; then the misplacement is found to be the result of a missurvey, or no survey.

The case comes so replete with examples of intertribal counterclaims to areas, evidence of missurveys of reservation lands, unconscionable low payments, and so forth that it fairly represents a "standard" case, if such exists.

In the 1870s, R.h. Milroy, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Washington Territory, recommended to the Department of the Interior that an additional executive order correct the missurvey of 1856 with regard to the ownership of tidelands.

Have you ever heard of a missurvey suit winning?

BLM holds this parcel in reserve under the Omitted Lands Act of 1962, which provided BLM with the authority to clear the titles and hold or dispose of lands missurveyed along the course of the Snake River ( Marty Benham, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Falls Office, May 1982, personal communication).

As you know, since 1946, Congress has been trying to resolve the problem of the 105th meridian land that was missurveyed by the Federal Government on our easternmost border.

A note in the ELP states: "Land sold to Eliab Yeoman, then to John Clapp, then Jesse Oakly and then to David Barker was missurveyed and had to be redone.

Word Forms

• missurveys
• missurveying
• missurveyed

When Should You Use Missurvey?

Use missurvey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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