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Definition of Surveyors
1. surveyor [n] - See also: surveyor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surveyors
Literary usage of Surveyors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Powers and duties of highway surveyors.—Their office and duty consists in putting in
... But they may compound with the surveyors, at certain easy rates ..."
2. The Code of Virginia: With the Declaration of Independence and Constitution by Virginia, John Mercer Patton, Conway Robinson (1849)
"surveyors to give notice of intend- SEC. cd resignation or application for ...
surveyors, who disabled to be. * For the ancient mode of acquiring lands in ..."
3. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1889)
"Highway surveyors m the American Colonies. In Xew England the physical features
of the country were such as to render the construction and maintenance of ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"Clerks to surveyors of Taxes. MR. SLOAN : To ask the Secretary to the Treasury
whether, in view of the fact that the grounds of refusal of the Treasury to ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Liability of surveyors—Error parted off—Liable for in fixing boundary. fees paid
... surveyors as experts. surveyor. 579. Libel or slander of surveyor. 576. ..."
6. The Royal Government in Virginia, 1624-1775 by Percy Scott Flippin, Wallace Everett Caldwell (1919)
"But the chief reason why the office of surveyor-general was changed from a royal
to a provincial appointment was that the surveyors were generally elected ..."
7. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"It was considered that the board of surveyors, in such case, should have applied
to a court of law to award a mandamus, requiring the railway company to ..."
8. An Introduction to the Local Constitutional History of the United States by George Elliott Howard (1889)
"Highway surveyors in the American Colonies. In New England the physical features
of the country were such as to render the construction and maintenance of ..."
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