Observing the actions of a person either with their knowledge (overt) or without their knowledge (covert.) To tail is a slang term to denote surveillance of a person who is moving. In some instances, surveillance may rise to a breach of right to privacy law. … [Read more...]

The act by which the quantity of a piece of land is ascertained; the paper containing a statement of the courses, distances, and quantity of land, is also called a survey. 2. A survey made by authority of law and duly returned into the land office, is a matter of record, and of equal dignity with the patent. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition The process by which a … [Read more...]

One who makes surveys of land; one who has the overseeing or care of another person's land or works. Surveyor of highways. In English law. A person elected by the inhabitants of a parish, in vestry assembled, to survey the ' highways therein. He must possess certain qualifications in point of property; and, when elected, he is. compellable, unless he can show some grounds of … [Read more...]

When a tenant leaves leased property and returns control to the landlord. … [Read more...]

To remain alive. Usually in reference to a survivor, one who survives and lives while another has died. … [Read more...]