Legal surveys

The NLS carries out legal surveys outside city plan areas. Three quarters of legal surveys concern parcelling. Legal surveys are carried out by District Survey Offices.

Types of legal survey

  • Partitioning means the division of real estate in specific proportions. Partitioning is done when the joint owners of the real estate wish to divide it up between themselves.
  • A private road survey means the establishment, removal or any other rearrangement of access rights. 
  • A resurvey of boundaries is done when a boundary mark has been lost or something else is unclear about the boundaries.
  • Other legal surveys may include a land-for-land exchange, easement survey, redemption of alluvial areas, transfer of a land area to a real estate in a city plan area, and redemption of a part of a lot or construction site in a town plan area.

For more information on the application of legal surveys and related matters, contact your local District Survey Office.

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