Land Referencing Standard
Glossary of technical terms
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The SoLR Land Referencing Glossary of Technical Terms brings together terminology used across the profession, including specialist expressions, abbreviations and commonly used jargon. It is intended as an advisory resource and is not legally definitive or exhaustive. Entries may be updated as professional practice develops.
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frontage
A property outside limits that nevertheless projects a notifiable interest to those with an interest in that property on the extent of a public highway immediately in front of that property up the centreline of that highway insofar as that extent of the public highway is in limits. This is as a result of the ad medium filum rule – see ‘ad medium filum’
Related terms: ad medium filum
Updated: 01/10/2026