cadastre

Property ownership record

A cadastre is an official register of property boundaries, dimensions, and ownership within a district, used for taxation and land administration.

The term appears mainly in legal and governmental contexts: The county maintains a cadastre of all parcels.

Also spelled cadaster.

mapping

plat

Mapped piece of ground

digitization · scale · projection · layer · polygon · georeferencing · topographic · cartography · coordinate · raster

ownership

title

Formal honorific or name

tenure · freehold · leasehold · estate · parcel · conveyance · transfer · inheritance · acquisition · possessor

valuation

appraisal

Estimation of worth

revaluation · zoning · land-use · improvement · encumbrance · lien · mortgage · easement

surveying

theodolite

Precision angle-measuring instrument

benchmarking · traverse · levelling · plotting · stakeout · chainman · fieldwork · photogrammetry · LiDAR · retracement

registration

records

Stored data or albums

indexing · enrollment · ledger · gazetteer · certificate · entry · annotation · cross-reference · authentication · notarization

administration

adjudication

Formal decision on disputes

Opposites
documentation status

cadastreinformal settlement

Unplanned, unofficial housing area

no-man's-land · wilderness

systematization

cadastredeed

Written property conveyance

oral tradition · handshake deal

land tenure system

cadastrecommons

Shared community resources

communal land · usufruct · public domain · open range

Family

cadastral

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