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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reputed (as in ‘reputed freeholder’ and ‘reputed leaseholder’)
The qualification applicable to freehold and leasehold entries in a book of reference that permits the auditable evidence to support their inclusion to be less than that required to be confident that diligent/reasonable enquiry has been exercised. This phrase allows the land reference to err on the side of caution and include interested parties without the standard of proof relied upon elsewhere
Updated: 01/10/2026