Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a cadaster; according to or for the purposes of a cadaster; having reference to the extent, value, and ownership of landed property as a basis for assessment for fiscal purposes: as, a cadastral survey.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to landed property.
- adjective a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually 1/2500 of the linear measure of the ground, or twenty-five inches to the mile or about an inch to the acre) so as to represent the relative positions and dimensions of objects and estates exactly; -- distinguished from a
topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness.
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- adjective cartography of, or relating to a
cadastre
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the records of a cadastre
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Examples
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The final chapter talks about the future of land surveying, with challenges ahead such as the possible transition to a coordinate based cadastral system and the necessity of maintaining the survey framework that already exists — plus, of course, the need for new surveyors to continue to enter the profession.
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM ewillett 2010
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The final chapter talks about the future of land surveying, with challenges ahead such as the possible transition to a coordinate based cadastral system and the necessity of maintaining the survey framework that already exists — plus, of course, the need for new surveyors to continue to enter the profession.
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM ewillett 2010
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The Sister-Books and the various documents of practice — cadastral register, rentbooks, and anniversary books — prove this, going beyond the mere copying of texts into the realm of original composition.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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In part, the social power of cadastral maps derived from the "scientific" and purportedly ungendered (because disembodied) quality of their construction, for by concealing their human origins and political objectives in the precisely measured straight lines and quantified areas of their pictorial images, these mappings disavowed the possibility of change or resistance.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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But cadastral surveys, by carving the land up into unnaturally straight-edged blocks (first on paper and then, where possible, in the soil itself), assigning (or denying) rights to it in terms of commercial ownership, and buttressing the lines on these maps with the power of state-sanctioned law, sought to transform and appropriate not only control over territorial organization but the land itselfand thus the foundation of Africans 'social organization and culture.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Six days later Dutcher wrote again from his New York City office mentioning the red tape being encountered and the considerable amount of information, affidavits, and the cadastral survey he and Robert Williams had already supplied to the GLO.
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Pelican Island had a distinctly triangular shape according to J.O. Fries 'July 1902 cadastral survey for the AOU Committee, with each side measuring roughly 700 feet.
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Of all types of colonizers 'maps, cadastral maps impinged most directly and disruptively on the lives of Africans in Magude; at the same time, they were also the most forcefully opposed form of colonial cartography, especially among communities living farther from the Portuguese government center in Magude town.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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What remain of Pretoria is a "cadastral area" registered in the deeds registry as a township, the City of Tshwane Metropolitan said on
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Finally, during my second trip to Mozambique, when I was working principally on land issues, I spent a total of about two weeks working in the archives of the provincial and national offices of the Direcção Nacional de Geografia e Cadastre (DINAGECA), where I found a wealth of documentary material related to land concessions and rural land politics during the colonial and postindependence periods (e.g., cadastral registers and maps, technical reports, surveys, correspondence).
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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"A ranch-man at a ranch warns campagnards that a shah has spat at hard-and-fast laws that ban cadastral graft."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 19
May 20, 2010