Sentences with phrase «survey on a piece of land»
The Crown collected a fee called a quitrent on lands patented in its colonies, but in Virginia, it was common practice for buyers, and especially land speculators, to avoid paying the quitrent by taking out a warrant of survey on a piece of land and holding it indefinitely, without a patent.
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«The State should encourage industry and Aboriginal representatives to join with it in developing heritage guidance and protocols... accepting that a full [heritage] survey would identify all sites on a particular piece of land and would be the point of reference for all further activity on the land», Report p89.