ABSTRACT
There have been several texts published dealing with water boundaries and title issues concerning various categories of water. Such a complex topic and subject to many variations such that only a superficial treatment is included here as relating to original surveys. Water is continually moving, due to natural processes of gravity and wind, as well as artificial influences of dikes, dams, levees, dredging, and other manmade structures. Mills and mill sites, which number in the thousands in the United States alone, occupy a special niche in the world of surveys, boundaries, and titles. Not well understood by the average person, the law is very old, very complex, and exceedingly far-reaching. While some states have held that title to the lands within the meander line remained in the United States, and upon statehood vested in the state, Michigan does not regard a meander line as a boundary.
