Ca*das"tral (?), a. [F.]

Of or pertaining to landed property.

Cadastral survey, ∨ Cadastral map, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually feac1x2500/ of the linear measure of the ground, or twenty-five inches to the mile or about an inch to the acre) so as to represent the relative positions and dimensions of objects and estates exactly; -- distinguished from a topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness.

Brande & C.

 

© Webster 1913.

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