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A map that legally decides where your fence can and can't go.
means A detailed map or chart showing how a piece of land is divided into plots, lots, or streets, often filed for legal and property records.
from Plat is essentially the same word as 'plot' — both trace to Old French 'plat,' meaning flat or a flat surface, which goes back to Greek 'platys,' meaning broad or flat. The two words split over time: 'plot' drifted toward schemes and storylines, while 'plat' held onto its flat, literal, surveyor's sense — a flattened, bird's-eye diagram of land laid out on paper.
- not a plot
- plat is the drawn map, plot is the land itself
- recorded forever
- filed with county clerks, outlives the surveyor who made it
- subdivision birth
- every suburb starts as lines on a plat
- boundary bible
- courts trust it over your neighbor's fence story