Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does a cadastral survey change who owns land rather than merely recording it?
Hints
- What must a column of a register do to a tangle of overlapping seasonal rights?
- After the survey, what can the state see?
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D. It makes land legible for taxation, erasing customary rights
Why
Fixed boundaries, unique owners, measured areas, replacing customary rights no column could hold. And afterwards those rights are not merely unrecorded but unrecognized, because the register has become the reality the state can see.
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