cadastral
- adjective
- /kæˈdæstrəl/
- Specialized
- Surveyors use cadastral records to confirm the boundaries of property lines during transactions.
Examples
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Creation of a digital archive of project reports, presentations, documents, scanned maps, cadastral information, and photographs.
Academic text (2008) -
The government maintains accurate cadastral maps to delineate land ownership for legal purposes.
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Why have a cadastral spirit that lives elsewhere instead of an autochthonous spirit?
Academic text (1992) -
This is the same type of relationship that villagers have with their cadastral spirit, heart of the village, monks, and local leaders.
Academic text (1992) -
Thus, the Lao have a hierarchy of cadastral spirits, with the polity level spirit superior to the village level spirit, who, in turn, is the superior of the household level spirit.
Academic text (1992) -
Very likely, these processes created the almost village-less nature of Bang Chan, which lacks a ritual relationship to cadastral spirits, the tangential nature of the temple to the village as village, and the importance of household rituals.
Academic text (1992) -
The cadastral information helps homeowners understand their property rights and responsibilities.
Synonyms
About making or studying maps
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
cadastral = cadastre (transparent) = cadastre + al
The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'cadastre' with the common relational suffix '-al'.
Etymology
Cadastral comes from cadastre, a word for the official 'register' or list of land and who owns it. That old idea of an official record explains the modern meaning: a cadastral map or record shows property boundaries and ownership.