# Cadastral Survey

> Cadastral Survey preserves the lineage that made today's property and mortgage systems feel normal

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:history-events:cadastral-survey` |
| Family | History & Events |
| Domain | Culture |
| Era | Kinship Age → Agentic Age |
| Kind | record-or-instrument |
| Archetype | The Memory |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Cadastral Survey is a record or instrument in the History & Events family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Cadastral Survey preserves the lineage that made today's property and mortgage systems feel normal.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** borrower, lender, title professional, attorney, custodian, recorder
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** durable evidence, priority, notice, transferability
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Cadastral Survey preserves the lineage that made today's property and mortgage systems feel normal
- **Gift:** Clarity about cadastral survey makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When cadastral survey is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when cadastral survey is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where cadastral survey appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Cadastral Survey reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Cadastral Survey changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Cadastral Survey changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Cadastral Survey can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Memory enters the reading through Cadastral Survey. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What must Cadastral Survey make durable before you can safely proceed?

**Guidance:** Resolve provenance, authority, custody, and ambiguity before relying on the artifact.

## Game function

Provides Evidence or Authority; missing custody or a defect blocks transfer. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **Overleverage conflicts with Cadastral Survey.** Overleverage conflicts with Cadastral Survey through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Colonial Land Grant transfers into Cadastral Survey.** Colonial Land Grant transfers into Cadastral Survey through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Cadastral Survey is governed by Tenement Era.** Cadastral Survey is governed by Tenement Era through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Cadastral Survey is evidenced by Scottish Feudal Abolition.** Cadastral Survey is evidenced by Scottish Feudal Abolition through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Cadastral Survey through the lineage of History & Events: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Cadastral Survey: engraved layers, signatures, parcel geometry, seals, and custody marks held inside a precise brass frame; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty, historical discrimination, cultural context, fair-lending implications. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report](https://www.govinfo.gov/features/financial-crisis-inquiry-report) — Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission / U.S. Government Publishing Office; causes and mechanisms of the 2007–2009 financial crisis.
- [The Future of Mortgage Finance in the United States](https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20081031a.htm) — Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; securitization, GSEs, underwriting, leverage, crisis.
- [About Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac](https://www.fhfa.gov/about/fannie-mae-freddie-mac) — Federal Housing Finance Agency; GSE liquidity, stability, affordability, MBS.
