2025 Session Last amended: 1986 session

§ 559.25 — Judgment; Landmarks

Plain-Language Summary

When a court decides a boundary dispute, the judgment must describe the boundary lines using well-known permanent landmarks. The court can order a surveyor to place a permanent stone or iron marker labeled 'Judicial Landmark' so the boundary can be found in the future.

559.25 JUDGMENT; LANDMARKS.

The judgment shall locate and define the boundary lines involved by reference to well-known permanent landmarks, and, if it shall be deemed for the interest of the parties, after the entry of judgment, the court may direct a competent surveyor to establish a permanent stone or iron landmark in accordance with the judgment, from which future surveys of the land embraced in the judgment shall be made. Such landmarks shall have distinctly cut or marked thereon “Judicial Landmark.” The surveyor shall make report to the court, and in the report shall accurately describe the landmark so erected, and define its location as nearly as practicable.

History:

(9592) RL s 4456; 1986 c 444

History: History: (9592) RL s 4456; 1986 c 444

Practical Notes

These judicial landmarks are permanent reference points. Future surveys of the land must be made from these markers, which helps prevent the same boundary dispute from coming up again.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes