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survey

survey a property diagram that indicates legal boundaries, easements, encroachments, rights of way, improvement locations, etc. Surveys are conducted by licensed surveyors and are normally required by the lender in order to confirm that the property boundaries and features such as buildings, and easements are correctly described in the legal description of the property. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

North Central

Of or pertaining to a region of the U S generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana Wyoming and Colorado...

Marches

Marches, the boundaries of countries and territories; the limits between England, Wales, and Scotland. Also, in Scotland, the boundaries between private properties, which are said to 'March' with one another, Co. Litt. 106 b....

Building

Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...

transgress

transgress 1 : to go beyond limits set or prescribed by : violate 2 : to pass beyond or go over (a limit or boundary) vi 1 : to violate a law 2 : to go beyond a boundary or limit ...

bound

bound 1 : boundary usually used in pl. [metes and s] 2 : something that limits or restrains [within the s of the law] past and past part of bind vt : to form the boundary of or enclose [property ed on the north by a stone wall] adj : placed under a legal or moral restraint or obligation ...

fine

fine [Anglo-French fin fine & Medieval Latin finis end, boundary, agreement, payment for release or privilege, monetary penalty, from Latin finis end, boundary] 1 : a sum imposed as punishment for an offense compare restitution 2 : a forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action vt fined fin·ing : to impose a fine on : punish by fine ...

Meresman

An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries...

Diameter

Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body as a circle conic section sphere cube etc and terminated by the opposite boundaries a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve...

Royal forests

Royal forests. A hunting territory for the King's princely delight and pleasure. Its boundaries are ascertained by record, or prescription; formerly administered by laws and officers belonging to the forest, with special courts and a particular law. These were obsolescent as long since as the end of the sixteenth century. Control and jurisdiction are now vested in the Commissioners of Crown lands. See Crown Lands Acts, 1851 and 1866, and Forestry Acts, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 58), and 1927 (17 Geo. 5, c. 6); and see Manwood's Forest Laws and Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Constit. Law....

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