Cadastre Definition

kədastər
noun
Public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • cadaster

Origin of Cadastre

  • French from Provençal cadastro from Italian catastro alteration of Old Italian catastico from Late Greek katastikhon register Greek kata- by cata– Greek stikhos line steigh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the French cadastre.

    From Wiktionary

Cadastre Sentence Examples

  • Establishing a mining cadastre unit is a vital step in providing a favorable climate for investment.

  • Perhaps the most comprehensive of the fiscal reforms of the Empire was the reconstruction of the land tax, based on a census or (to use the French term) cadastre, in which the area, the modes of cultivation and the estimated productiveness of each holding were stated, the average of ten preceding years being taken as the standard.

  • Peter the Great regularized and completed this evolution by effecting a comprehensive cadastre and census of the rural population.

  • The repairing of highways, the upkeep of public buildings,the support of public education, the remuneration of numerous officials connected with the collection of state taxes, the keeping of the cadastre, &c., constitute the principal objects of communal expenditure.

  • The tables have never been published, and are generally known as the Tables du Cadastre, or, in England, as the great French manuscript tables.

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Words Starting With

CCACAD

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ERETRE

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