Water impoundment in which organic wastes are stored or stabilized, or both.
Term: Land Division Committee
Definition:
A consent granting committee appointed by the council of an upper-tier municipality composed of not fewer than three people responsible for hearing applications and approving consent to subdivide land.
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Term: Land Registrar
Definition:
Official overseeing one or more registry offices under whose authority instruments and plans are registered or deposited.
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Term: Land Registry Office
Definition:
Repository for registered and deposited documents under the land Titles and/or Registry Acts. See also "Registry Office".
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Term: Land Surveying
Definition:
The establishment or reestablishment of land boundaries and the plotting of lands and subdivisions thereof. The practice of land surveying includes surveying of areas for their correct determination and description and for conveyance.
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Term: Latitude
Definition:
Is generally defined as the "angular distance" measured on a meridian.
(1) Astronomic is the angle between a plumb line and the plane of the celestial equator, i.e. measured on the geoid.
(2) Geodetic is the angle between a normal to the reference spheroid and the geodetic equator.
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A condominium corporation in which all the units and their appurtenant common interests are subject to leasehold interests held by the owners.
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Term: Least Squares
Definition:
A method of estimating a quantity or fitting a graph to data so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed values and the estimated values.
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Term: Legal Description
Definition:
A description, recognized by law, locating property by reference to geographic pattern of land. Generally stated in reference to all or part of lots on a Registered Plan or by lot and concession. This is not the municipal or civic address.
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Term: Legal Survey
Definition:
A survey made to define boundaries of parcels of land suitable for the transfer of rights. It includes the preparation of field notes and plans and any examination, approval or confirmation that may be required.
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Term: Legislation
Definition:
(1) Laws, considered collectively; (2) the process of making or enacting laws.
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Term: Legislature
Definition:
The Queen, as represented by the Lieutenant Governor, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly. After a bill receives three readings and is passed by the Legislative Assembly, the Lieutenant Governor, on behalf of the Queen, assents to the bill by signing it. The bill is thus enacted by the Legislature.
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The person who owns the freehold estate in the land described in the condominium description.
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Term: Letters probate
Definition:
Includes letters testamentary or a similar grant based on a will proven before a court having jurisdiction in probate matters outside Ontario.
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Term: Licensed surveyor
Definition:
A member of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors licensed to engage in the practice of cadastral surveying; each member has a unique number, which is usually imprinted on "surveyors iron bars" for easy recognition (see iron bars).
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Term: Limitations
Definition:
A limiting rule or circumstance; a restriction. The period set by legislation.
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Term: Line Fences Act
Definition:
Legislation providing a procedure that enables neighbouring landowners to have their fencing disputes arbitrated by municipally appointed fence-viewers which is applicable to situations where one owner wants to construct, repair or maintain a fence on a property boundary line, but is unable to reach agreement with the other owner on the type of fence to be erected, the sharing of the costs of the fence, or both of these issues.
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Term: Lis Pendens
Definition:
A notice of an action involving real estate; notice that there is a lien or other title limiting action pending against the real estate.
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