Electronic Distance Measuring
Term: Easement in Gross
Definition:
An easement that does not require an abutting dominant tenement (usually a utility easement).
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Term: Effective Precipitation
Definition:
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: Ellipsoid Height
Definition:
The distance from a point to the reference ellipsoid along a line normal to the ellipsoid.
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Term: Eminent Domain
Definition:
The right of governmental agencies in the USA to take private property for public use.
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Term: Encroachment
Definition:
An structure or occupational feature which intrudes upon the land of another usually adverse to the rightful owner.
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Term: Encumbrance
Definition:
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: Engineering Survey
Definition:
A survey executed for the purpose of obtaining information that is essential for planning an engineering project or development.
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Term: Environmentally Sound
Definition:
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: 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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Term: Error Ellipse
Definition:
A statistical measure of the positional error at a given point.
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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: Estoppel
Definition:
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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Term: Estoppel Certificate
Definition:
Documentation (sometimes required for condominium/strata units) of a condominium corporation's financial well-being and legal state.
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Term: Examiner of Surveys
Definition:
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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Term: Exclusive Use Portion
Definition:
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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Term: Expert Witness
Definition:
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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Term: Expropriating Authority
Definition:
The Crown or any person empowered by statute to expropriate land.
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Term: Expropriation Plan
Definition:
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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Term: Extent of Title
Definition:
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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