§ 751.50.Action to Equitably Reestablish Boundaries and to Quiet Title

This section opens the Cullen Earthquake Act, and its trigger is different from Chapter 3.5's. Nothing here depends on destroyed county records. Instead, the problem is physical: the ground itself has moved. If the boundaries of publicly or privately owned land have been disturbed by earth movements — slides, subsidence, lateral or vertical displacement, or similar disasters, whether caused by human activity or by earthquake or other acts of God — so that the land now sits in a different location than before the disaster, this section authorizes an in rem action to equitably reestablish the boundaries and quiet title within them.

That distinction matters for understanding when each chapter applies. Chapter 3.5 addresses a records problem — the paper trail proving title is gone. Chapter 3.6 addresses a surveying problem — the paper trail might be perfectly intact, but the ground it describes has physically shifted, so applying the old boundary lines to the new terrain no longer makes sense without judicial help.