That was the thinking in 1848, when, following Mexico's defeat by the United States and surrender of its vast northern lands, boundary surveyors from the two countries were tasked with reinventing the border.
The word comes from a type of moorland stream used to mark land boundaries.
Leeds Magistrates Courtt heard that Booth and David Morgan, who live in Todmorden, have been arguing about land boundaries for four years.
The sovereign territory of a state extends to its recognized land boundaries and to the border of airspace and outer space above them.
The land boundaries are run out by courses and distances, and monuments, natural or artificial, are fixed at the corners, or angles.
(Conflict between Guatemala and Belize over land boundaries would persist into the 20th and 21st centuries; the dispute became intractable after 1940 when Guatemala declared that the treaty was null and void because such communication had never been developed).
The surface currents of the Atlantic Ocean primarily correspond to the system of prevailing winds with such modifications as are imposed on the movement of the water by land boundaries.
The country has a total of 860 miles (1,385 km) of land boundaries with neighbours; it is bounded by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, and France to the south.
I think the fact that we are an island nation, that we haven't had to defend land boundaries and fight over which patch of land is ours or "theirs", has engendered a confidence (arrogance, too, I'm sure) in our culture.
Thus, surveying has two similar but opposite functions: (1) the determination of existing relative horizontal and vertical position, such as that used for the process of mapping, and (2) the establishment of marks to control construction or to indicate land boundaries.
