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Plan. In the (English) Copyright Act, 1911, 'literary work' includes 'plans' (s. 35); and see also as to plans, s. 2, sub-s. (1) (ii). see COPYRIGHT. Under various Acts, plans have to be deposited with local authorities for various purposes. If the local authority neglects to pass the plans the remedy is by mandamus, Davis v. Bromley Corporation, (1908) 1 KB 170 and R. v. Cambrdige Corporation, (1922) 1 KB 250. As to a purchaser's right to have the property conveyed to him by reference to a plan on his conveyance, see Re Sansom, (1910) 1 Ch 741; Re Sparrow, ib. 2 Ch 60, and as to maps as evidence, Storey v. Eastborune R.D.C., (1927) 1 Ch 367.

Under the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 76, land may be described by description on a map or plan. For the practice of the Land Registry, consult The Land Registry General Map, by W.S. Tratman, and LR Rules, 272-285.

As to the property in plans, see ARCHITECT.

In common acceptation mean 'a drawing or diagram made by projections on a horizontal plane'. The Law Lexicon attributes it to be a design or a sketch and is a draft or form of representation and its synonyms are sketch and design. Corpus Juris Secundum (Vol. 70) attributes a meaning in a similar vein as 'a draft or form or representation of a horizontal section of anything as of a machinery; a map... a scheme; a project; also a method of action, procedure, or arrangement, Commissioner of Customs v. Parasrampuria Synthetics Ltd., (2001) 9 SCC 74 (78).