Monument

1.

Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body bas been deposited.

Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 202; In re Ogden, 25 R. I. 373, 55 Atl. 933. 2.

In real-property law and surveying, monumento are visible marks or indications left on natural or other objecte indicating the lines and boundaries of a survey. In this sense the term includes not only posts, pillars, stone markers, cairns, and the like, but also fixed natural objects, blazed trees, and even a watercourse.

See Grier v. Pennsylvania Coal Co., 128 Pa. 79, 18 Atl. 480; Cox v. Freedley, 33 Pa. 124, 75 Am. Dec. 584.