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Annex D - Illustrative vocabulary crosswalk (informative)

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D.1 Use and limitation

The terms below illustrate how jurisdictional language can map to conceptual classes. They are not exact legal equivalences. A term can map differently according to its creating instrument, statutory context or jurisdiction.

D.2 Land and registration terms

Conceptual term: registered title
Illustrative local or industry terms: title, title sheet, folio

Conceptual term: registration geometry
Illustrative local or industry terms: title plan, cadastral map extent, registry map, index polygon, title-plan geometry

Conceptual term: unregistered-title evidence
Illustrative local or industry terms: deed, conveyance, memorial, search sheet, Registry of Deeds record, Sasine deed

Conceptual term: land parcel
Illustrative local or industry terms: parcel, property unit, cadastral unit, holding part, plot where defined by an output

Conceptual term: derived parcel
Illustrative local or industry terms: acquisition parcel, holding acquisition parcel, interest acquisition parcel, book-of-reference plot

Conceptual term: requirement boundary
Illustrative local or industry terms: red line boundary, order limits, limits of land to be acquired or used, limits of deviation, scheme boundary

D.3 Rights terms

Conceptual class: ownership right
Illustrative terms requiring jurisdictional validation: freehold, ownership, feudal or residual historical interest where still relevant

Conceptual class: possessory right
Illustrative terms requiring jurisdictional validation: lease, tenancy, sublease, licence conferring possession where legally applicable

Conceptual class: use, access or resource right
Illustrative terms requiring jurisdictional validation: easement, servitude, wayleave, right of way, right of support, fishing, grazing or mineral right

Conceptual class: security right
Illustrative terms requiring jurisdictional validation: mortgage, legal charge, standard security

Conceptual class: payment right
Illustrative terms requiring jurisdictional validation: rentcharge, annuity, feu duty or other payment issuing from land where applicable

Conceptual class: contingent acquisition right
Illustrative terms requiring jurisdictional validation: option, pre-emption, conditional purchase right

Conceptual class: benefit of restrictive obligation
Illustrative terms requiring jurisdictional validation: restrictive covenant, real burden, title condition

D.4 Party and capacity terms

Conceptual term: organisation
Illustrative terms: company, body corporate, local authority, statutory body, charity, unincorporated association where capable of acting

Conceptual term: grouping
Illustrative terms: trustees, executors, administrators, partners or personal representatives acting collectively

Conceptual term: office
Illustrative terms: office-holder, keeper, minister, bishop, proper officer or other position in which authority vests

Conceptual term: representative
Illustrative terms: solicitor, land agent, attorney, authorised officer

Conceptual term: party-right capacity
Illustrative terms: owner, proprietor, tenant, occupier, mortgagee, heritable creditor, beneficiary, trustee, executor

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