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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

See Locus; Permanent.

1.

To ascertain the place where a thing belongs: as, to locate a call in a survey.

Locative.

Referring to a physical object by which the boundary of land may be identified.* See Call, 3 (8).

2.

Said of a building: to erect, put up; not» necessarily, to complete.'

3.

To select the line upon which a road or way is to be constructed.

Whence relocate

The ordinary meaning of the words " to locate " a way is " to ascertain and determine the place of " the way, and in this sense they might well be used in'connection with the technical words " to lay out." • In statutes relating to ways, " location " sometimes ' 1 Stimson, Am. Stat. Law, § 153. 'Trist V. Child, 21 Wall. 441, 449-50 (1874), Swayne, J.; Osoanyan v. Winchester Arms Co., IDS U. S. 275 (1880). ' State V. District Court of Ramsey County, 33 Minn. 307(1885); 32 id.

507. « See Johnson v. Pannel, 2 Wheat. 211 (1817); Mc Dowell V. Peyton, 10 id. 463 (1835); 8 Bibb, 414. 'Waldron v. Marcier, 83 111. 560 (1876); Moule o.

Plank Road Co., 6 How. Pr. 39, 40 (1851). means the land included within the limits of the way as laid out, and sometimes is synonymous with " laying out" — establishing a new highway, * See Abandon, 1; Extend; Eaileoad; Take, S. Locator. (1) He who places, that is, bails, a thing with another for a compensation. See LOCATIO. (2) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land.

See 4, infra.

The claim of a "locator," in Kentucky, is for a portion of the land in compensation for his services.^ 4, To appropriate land as a mining claim. See Mining, Claim.