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Term: E.D.M.
Definition:
Electronic Distance Measuring
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Term: Easement
Definition:
An interest or right in land owned by another that entitles its holder to a specific limited use. An easement is a right to use someone else's land for a specific purpose.
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An easement that does not require an abutting dominant tenement (usually a utility easement).
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Term: Eaves
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The edge of the roof that overhangs the exterior walls, sometimes with exposed rafters.
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The part of precipitation which produces runoff ; a weighted average of current and past precipitation correlating with runoff. It is also that part of the precipitation falling on an irrigated area which is effective in meeting the requirements of consumptive use.
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Term: Effluent
Definition:
The discharge of a pollutant in a liquid form, often from a pipe into a stream or river.
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Term: Egress
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The right or permission to go out from a place; right of exit; usually associated with emergency exiting for vehicles and pedestrians.
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Term: EHS
Definition:
Acronym for East of Hurontario Street.
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Term: Elevation
Definition:
The vertical distance from a datum, generally mean sea level, to a point or object on the earth's surface.
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Term: Ellipsoid
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A spheroid, the mathematical model used to describe the shape of the earth for geodetic computations. The figure is formed by rotating an ellipse about its minor (shorter) axis.
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The distance from a point to the reference ellipsoid along a line normal to the ellipsoid.
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The right of governmental agencies in the USA to take private property for public use.
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An structure or occupational feature which intrudes upon the land of another usually adverse to the rightful owner.
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A claim that secures the payment of money or the performance of any other obligation and includes a charge, a mortgage or a lien.
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Term: Endowment
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The gift to an organization which is intended to provide long-term support, which may include both money and property.
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A survey executed for the purpose of obtaining information that is essential for planning an engineering project or development.
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Refers to those principles, methods and procedures involved in addressing the protection, management and enhancement of the ecosystem which are used in disciplines such as geology, geomorphology, hydrology, botany and zoology and applied in the valid study of shoreline and fluvial processes, vegetation, wildlife and aquatic habitat resource management.
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Term: Epoch
Definition:
A specific instant in time. GPS carrier phase measurements are made at a given frequency (e.g. every 30 seconds) or epoch rate.
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Term: Equity
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A system of laws parallel to the common law. Equity was developed to ameliorate the harshness of the common law which recognized only strict legal rights.
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Term: Erosion
Definition:
The wearing away of the land surface by running water, wind, ice or other geological agents, including such processes as gravitational creep. Geological erosion is natural occurring erosion over long periods of time. Natural erosion can legally reduce the size of a land parcel that adjoins to a body of water.
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A statistical measure of the positional error at a given point.
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Term: Escheat
Definition:
Reversion of property to the state when there is no one competent or available to inherit.
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Term: Escrow
Definition:
A writing, deed, money, stock, or other property delivered by the grantor, promiser or obligator into the hands of a third person to be held by the latter until the happening of a contingency or performance of a condition and then by him delivered to the grantee, promisee, or obligee.
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Term: Estate
Definition:
The degree, quantity, nature, and extent of interest which a person has in real and personal property.
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Term: Estoppel
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The situation or doctrine whereby one is concluded and forbidden by law to speak against his own act or deed. The situation can arise in disputes over a boundary if one of the parties tries to make a claim rendered suspect or invalid by his own actions or record. The principle that you can not take something back that would cause damage to someone who relied on the original acts.
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Documentation (sometimes required for condominium/strata units) of a condominium corporation's financial well-being and legal state.
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Term: Evidence
Definition:
Statements, information, and things that are used to prove or disprove an alleged fact.
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Means the examiner of surveys appointed under section 14 of the Land Titles Act.
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Part of the common elements reserved for the sole use of one or more unit owners (such as balconies, front/rear yards, parking spaces).
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Part of the common elements that is used by a) the owners of one or more designed units, but not all the owners, in the case of a corporation that is not a common elements condominium. b) the owners of one or more common interests in the case of common elements condominium.
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Part of the plans of survey that shows the exclusive use portions.
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Term: Executor
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The person named in a will to carry out the instructions in the will.
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A person who has special knowledge or experience who testifies in court to help the jury or judge understand the evidence in their subject area.
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The Crown or any person empowered by statute to expropriate land.
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Plan prepared by or for a municipality or provincial Ministry of Transportation to acquire lands required for government purposes. Most often prepared to acquire lands for road widening purposes.
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The size and shape of a land parcel defined by survey and/or legal description; also referred to as "Quantity of Title".
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