DCHP-3

lot line

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the survey line marking each of the four sides of a lot.

See: lot(def. 1b)

Quotations

1853
Cross lines run at right angles with the former every thirty chains, and are called lot-lines: they subdivide the township into two hundred acre lots; every fifth cross line is a road allowance.
1863
He looked again at the landmark--an elm tree at the junction of the lot line and the concession road, which bore numbers of each, "Nine Fifteen" . . . on opposite sides.