cadastral
Americanadjective
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Surveying. (of a map or survey) showing or including boundaries, property lines, etc.
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of or relating to a cadastre.
Other Word Forms
- cadastrally adverb
Etymology
Origin of cadastral
From French, dating back to 1855–60; see origin at cadastre, -al 1
Example Sentences
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But the cadastral projects run by the World Bank frequently failed.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2020
A good cadastral system makes the buying and selling of land, as well as the collection of taxes, easy.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2020
He had already made a cadastral survey of the canton of Geneva, and published a map of the canton on the scale of 1⁄25000.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
In the year 548 the kingdom of Ts'u ordered a cadastral survey, and also a general stock-taking of arms, chariots, and horses.
From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper
This is rather geographical than cadastral, and, perhaps, mythical, since it refers to the king Shamash-napishtim-uṣur, who may be the Shamash-napishtim of the flood story.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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