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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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1 term found
spit
A term used to describe the length of the face of a spade when explaining who traditionally/theoretically owns the scrapings of a road surface, the ownership of which resides with the highway authority to the depth of ‘two spits’ – see also ‘scrapings’
Related terms: scrapings
Updated: 01/10/2026
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