A Madagascar, en effet, outre cette délimitation, il faut que le propriétaire prouve ses droits par un acte officiel. Autrement dit, il faut que ses prérogatives sur les parcelles délimiter soient mentionnées dans un répertoire public appelé matrice foncière.

La carte topographique est tenue à jour par les géomètres officiels qui

la révisent constamment. Tous changements de detail topographique portes à l'attention de l'équipe sont indiqués sur la carte topographique révisée.

Man instinctively and intelligently takes care of himself as well as he can, and man does this test in a society of fellow humans. The natural human priority is self-preservation and fulfillment, but in the framework of the human group- where responsibilities to others give meaning to rights that each individual asserts for himself and can test us as individualst even as it sustains us- Land can unify

and ennoble us as groups, even as it tempts us to indulge the more provincial among social concerns.

The science of "survey" was known to ancient Egyptians. Drawings and

paintings on the walls of temples and tombs, and writings on papyrus, prove that ancient. Egyptians practiced surveying long ago. Paintings on the temples of Thebe display land-surveyors using linear instruments.

Ce fut le premier levé cadastral complet effectué en Egypte sur des bases juridiques et topographiques valables. Les levés antérieurs consistaient à mesurer.

It is not possible to prepare a satisfactory register of properties and to guarantee title to those properties unless the properties have been positively identified i.e. unless it is possible to identify the boundaries of the properties with certainty. It is for this reason that in most modern systems of Registration of Title the Registrar requires that each property shall be unambiguously defined by representing its boundaries on a registry index map before recording the ownership of the property in the official register.