cadastral

[kuh-das-truhl]

adjective

1. Surveying.,  (of a map or survey) showing or including boundaries, property lines, etc.

2. of or relating to a cadastre.

Other Word Forms

• cadastrally adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of cadastral¹

From French, dating back to 1855–60; cadastre, -al ¹

Example Sentences

A good cadastral system makes the buying and selling of land, as well as the collection of taxes, easy.

From The Guardian

Erika Reed, a director for land and cadastral survey at the Bureau of Land Management, says the federal agency is required to follow a narrower definition of navigability defined in case law.

From Washington Times

The central question: Does the border run down the middle of the Danube, as Serbia says, or along an old cadastral route, as Croatia claims?

From New York Times

After conquering Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium, Napoleon introduced cadastral maps there, as well.

From BBC

These ‘cadastral’ maps delineate property boundaries and record the ownership of small parcels of land; some of the documents are as large as 4 metres by 7 metres.

From Nature