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Definition of Dividing line

1. Noun. A conceptual separation or distinction. "There is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"

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Literary usage of Dividing line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by California Legislature. Assembly, California, United States Congress Senate, Legislature (1912)
"... thence southwesterly along said dividing line to the northeasterly boundary line of the city of Piedmont; thence southeasterly and southerly following ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Agreements on dividing line not a conveyance.—An agreement between adjoining owners fixing a boundary line between them is not valid for any other purpose ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"It was therefore not erroneous to instruct the jury that the question for them to determine is: "What is the true dividing line between these two tracts of ..."

4. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Connecticut Council of Safety, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1880)
"... the northern half was sold to one Azariah Pratt, the dividing line whereof being the place of said gap or opening in the mountain complained of ..."

5. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"If you will examine the accompanying chart, you will observe that I have drawn, geographically, the dividing line of commerce between England and the ..."

6. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1839)
"V. WHEREAS, the dividing line between the parish of St. Matthew and „ ( the election district of Saxe-Gotha, has never been ascertained and marked ream ..."

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