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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cadastral

Cadastral \Ca*das"tral\, a. [F.] Of or pertaining to landed property.

Cadastral survey, or Cadastral map, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually 1/2500 of the linear measure of the ground, or twenty-five inches to the mile or about an inch to the acre) so as to represent the relative positions and dimensions of objects and estates exactly; -- distinguished from a topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness.
--Brande & C. [1913 Webster] ||

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cadastral

1858, from French cadastral, from cadastre "register of the survey of lands" (16c.), from Old Italian catastico, from Late Greek katastikhos "register," literally "by the line" (see cata-, stair). Gamillscheg dismisses derivation from Late Latin capitastrum "register of the poll tax."

Wiktionary
cadastral

a. (context cartography English) of, or relating to a cadastre

WordNet
cadastral

adj. of or relating to the records of a cadastre

Usage examples of "cadastral".

Living with the thing day and night, he got the money released, got a good engineer appointed and, as soon as the cadastral survey was completed, saw to it that the land to be redeemed was fairly portioned out.

Mason seeking thro' the force of his upward gaze some self-Elevation, "I am a Cadastral Surveyor, upon a Contractual Assignment," in a tone inviting a respectful hush.

So the year in Delaware with the Degree of Latitude is an Atonement, an immersion in "real" Science, a Baptism of the Cypress swamp, and even a Rebirth, not some hir'd Cadastral Survey by its nature corrupt, of use at Trail's End only to those who would profit from the sale and division and resale of Lands.

Now the councilors owned much more, and what had been a substantial farm if not an estate for the magistrate would shrink to a smallholding as soon as the new administration produced a cadastral survey.

Science, a Baptism of the Cypress swamp, and even a Rebirth, not some hir'd Cadastral Survey by its nature corrupt, of use at Trail's End only to those who would profit from the sale and division and resale of Lands.