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Meander Line

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A line designed to point out the sinuosities of the bank or shore, and a means of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction which is to be paid for by the purchaser. 241 111. 319.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A survey line showing the location, sinuosities, courses and distances of a watercourse. See 10 Minn. 82, 88 Am. Dec. 55.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

s In surveying, a line which follows the course of a stream. The meander-lines run in surveying fractional portions of the public lands bordering upon navigable rivers are run, not as boundaries of the tract, but for the purpose of defining the sinuosities of the banks of the stream, and as a means of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction."