Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
fundo legal
English translation:
town site
Spanish term
United States
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fundo legal
...ubicado en el Fundo Legal de Tulúm, Quintana Roo (etc.)
I've found several definitions in Spanish (e.g., "La extensión territorial necesaria para uso urbano de los habitantes de los poblados que la conforman") but I'm struggling for a more succinct English term to use in translation.
| 3 +1 | town site |
Glen or Margarita Olives
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| 4 | legal allotment |
Lucano Alvares
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| 3 | municipality |
José Manuel Lozano
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| 3 | (US: Civil or Charter) Township |
Adrian MM. (X)
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| 2 | the Legal Survey Record Book |
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Mar 17, 2011 13:59: Glen or Margarita Olives Created KOG entry
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town site
In Mexico, village lands held in the traditional Indian system of land tenure, blessed by Mexican law in the 1920s, that combines communal ownership with individual use. The ejido consists of cultivated land, pastureland, other uncultivated lands, and the fundo legal, or town site.
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Lo que significa que la propiedad está ubicada en el área común del ejido (donde está la escuela, la iglesia, etc.) y no en un "solar" o propiedad individual de un ejidatario.
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the Legal Survey Record Book
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Procedure to Establish Legal Survey
(e) The land surveyor shall present to the county surveyor for entry in the legal survey record book, a plat of such legal survey, together with proof of ...
www.indy.gov/eGov/County/Surveyor/Surveys/.../legalsurvey.a... - Cached
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legal allotment
"...which came to be known as the <i>fundo legal<i> or legal allotment..."
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municipality
(US: Civil or Charter) Township
Charter/ed townships are to be found in Michigan only, the charter part maybe reflecting the legal aspect...
Township definition, a unit of local government, usually a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. dictionary.reference.com/browse/township
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http://mapserver.inegi.gob.mx/geografia/espanol/cartcat/glos...
Sounds like Glen is closest.