Official registers or records showing the boundaries, ownership, and value of land properties in a specific area.
From French 'cadastre,' borrowed from Italian 'catastico,' ultimately from Greek 'katastichon' (register or list). It evolved to mean detailed property records used by governments.
Cadastres are the hidden backbone of how countries keep track of who owns what land—without them, property disputes would be chaos, and they've been used since ancient Egypt!
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