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LEGAL BOUNDARY [8 records]

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Record 1 2019-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveying
  • Mining Rights and Concessions
DEF

A legal post, excluding a corner post and a witness post, marking the boundary of a claim or a plot of land that is being staked with the purpose of making it a claim.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arpentage
  • Droit minier
DEF

Borne légale, autre qu'une borne d'angle ou une borne témoin, marquant les lignes de délimitation d'un claim ou d'une parcelle de terre qui est jalonnée afin d'en faire un claim.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

In its general sense, the determination of astronomic bearings and distances between points permanently or temporarily marked on the ground and includes the keeping of records of all measurements used in the determination.

CONT

"Survey", in its legal sense, means the determination of all the monuments or landmarks that mark a boundary and the survey of all the lines constituting the boundary. It includes the preparation of field notes and plans and any examination, approval or confirmation that may be required of the Surveyor General and other officers under the provisions of the ["Canada Lands Survey"] "Act" or other statutory authority.("Manual of Instructions for the Survey of Canada Lands", 2nd ed. 1979, p. B2 : 3).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

arpentage; levé : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

It is essential to an understanding of legal surveying to appreciate that, at common law, the first creation of a boundary or the demarcation of the extent of rights or ownership in land is absolute and will remain in its original unaltered position for all time. This statement is, however, beguilingly simple. Having said that an original boundary is unalterable, we must also appreciate that the retracement of an original boundary is an exercise in the assessment of evidence.("Law Society of Upper Canada, Real Estate and Landlord and Tenant", 1986-87, p. 95).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

limite primitive : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administration (Indigenous Peoples)
  • Territories (Indigenous Peoples)
DEF

A boundary parallel to an existing legal survey, a natural boundary or a right of way at a prescribed perpendicular distance from that boundary.

OBS

offset boundary: term and definition taken from the Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement / Gwich’in, Mackenzie Delta; and, term usually used in the Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement.

Key term(s)
  • off-set boundary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration (Peuples Autochtones)
  • Territoires (Peuples Autochtones)
DEF

Limite parallèle à une limite définie par un levé officiel, à une limite naturelle ou à une emprise, qui est située à une distance perpendiculaire prescrite.

OBS

limite voisine à une autre : terme et définition relevés dans l'Entente sur la revendication territoriale globale - Gwich'in, delta du Mackenzie.

OBS

limite en retrait : terme employé dans l'Entente territoriale globale des Dénés et Métis du Sahtu.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Surveys
CONT

Bearings, distances and curve data for all perimeter boundary lines with ties to 2 existing legal survey monuments unless otherwise required by the City Engineer. A traverse of the perimeter boundary lines from the existing legal survey monuments shall have an error of closure of not greater than 3 in 100.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Levés et relevés techniques (Arpentage)

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

The external or limiting lines of any object or space; as, to set bounds on a property. (Definitions of Surveying or Associated Terms, 1981, p. 22).

CONT

"Boundary lines" or "bounds" are defined as the legal and imaginary lines by which different parcels of land are divided.(Skelton, 1930, p. 179).

CONT

The term "boundary" has no special meaning in law, but is commonly used to denote the imaginary line which is the ascertainable limit of one person’s freehold or leasehold property. A boundary may also be the physical feature by which that limit is marked, e.g., a hedge, a wall, a bank or a stream. (Powell-Smith, p. 1)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

Le terme «frontière», qui désigne en géographie politique la limite séparant deux États voisins, ne s'emploie pas pour désigner les limites de terrains contigus.

OBS

limite : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
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Record 7 1999-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Municipal Law
  • Constitutional Law
OBS

as opposed to "natural boundary"

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit municipal
  • Droit constitutionnel
OBS

par opposition à limite «naturelle»

Spanish

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