[a. Fr. cadastre; = Sp., It. catastro:—late L. capitastrum ‘register of the polltax,’ f. caput head, poll.]
a. (= L. capitastrum.) The register of capita, juga, or units of territorial taxation into which the Roman provinces were divided for the purposes of capitatio terrena or land tax. (Poste, Gaius.) b. A register of property to serve as a basis of proportional taxation, a Domesday Book. c. (in mod.French use) A public register of the quantity, value and ownership of the real property of a country.
1804. Edin. Rev., V. 17. To compile a general Cadastre, somewhat in the style of our old doomsday book.
1834. Southey, Doctor, ccxli. (1862), 660. Materials for a moral and physiological Cadastre, or Domesday Book.
1864. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., IV. 62. The crown officers formed a new Cadastre according to the new principle which he laid down … the land was meted according to an invariable geometrical standard, without any reference to its productive worth.
1864. Webster, Cadastre, an official estimate of the quantity and value of real property, made for the purpose of justly apportioning taxes: used in Louisiana.
1875. Poste, Gaius, II. (ed. 2), 174. The list of capita was called a Cadastre (capitastrum).
