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cadastre

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ca·das·tre also ca·das·ter  (k-dstr)
n.
A public record, survey, or map of the value, extent, and ownership of land as a basis of taxation.

[French, from Provençal cadastro, from Italian catastro, alteration of Old Italian catastico, from Late Greek katastikhon, register : Greek kata-, by; see cata- + Greek stikhos, line; see steigh- in Indo-European roots.]

ca·dastral adj.
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Noun1.cadastre - a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation
register, registry - an official written record of names or events or transactions


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Settlers who read land for quality according to its cover and nearness to water, surveyors who fashioned the developing cadastre, and those who dispensed land by mixing good and poor tracts in compact, contiguous settlements all shaped the dispersed, open-country landscape.
329122 (2001CVG2-604)]; and the National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark.
Certainly he fails to analyse individual farming units because he lacks the tools to do it: in the department of the Loire, he would have to coordinate data drawn from the civil registers (for family structures) with those of the cadastre (for property); this he refuses to do.
 
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