cadaster
- noun
- /kəˈdæstər/
- Formal
- The city updated its cadaster to reflect the recent changes in land ownership and values.
Examples
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It has improved its land title recording system, depleted by a number of "revolutionary" measures over the first thirty-some years of the Cuban Revolution, and its cadaster, working on the very poor quality of the legal and physical descriptions for lots and premises of all kinds that have plagued Cuban real estate conveyances for years.
Academic text (2016) -
Christian Keller writes that "until recently, the impacts of the environment on Viking settlement patterns have been mostly inferred from written sources like tax records, cadasters, and catch-reports, and have not been based on independent climatic data" (8).
Academic text (1998) -
In the meeting, the officials discussed how the cadaster assists in determining property taxes.
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Each property owner received a copy of the cadaster to verify their land boundaries and assessments.
Synonyms
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An official list of land and property in England made in 1086 by William the Conqueror
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A book of copies of important legal papers kept by a monastery
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cadaster comes from an old Greek word katastichon meaning 'a list' or 'a register', and it later passed into Latin and French. Think of a cadaster as a special 'catalog' or phone book for land that shows who owns each plot, its borders, and its value. So a cadaster today is the official list of land, owners and values used for taxes.