Cape foot
A Cape foot is a unit of length defined as 1.0330 English feet (and equal to 12.396 English inches, or 0.31485557516 meters) found in documents of belts and diagrams relating to landed property.[1] It was identically equal to the Rijnland voet and was introduced into South Africa by the Dutch settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.[2] Its relationship to the English foot was clarified in 1859 by an Act of the government of the Cape Colony, South Africa . It was used for land surveying and title deeds in rural areas of South Africa apart from Natal and was also for urban surveying and title deeds in the Transvaal.[3] There were 144 square Cape feet in one Cape rood and 600 Cape roods (86,400 square Cape feet) in one morgen.[4] [5]
Its use ceased when South Africa adopted the metric system in 1977, though it has not yet been entirely replaced in pre-existing title deeds.
References
- ↑ Matthews, E.L.; G. M. Swift; G. Hartog (1924). "South Africa: Union of South Africa". Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law. Third Series 6 (2): 111–134.
- ↑ Jacob de Gelder (1824) (in Dutch). Allereerste Gronden der Cijferkunst. 's Gravenhage and Amsterdam: de Gebroeders van Cleef. pp. 163–176. https://archive.org/details/allereerstegron00ramagoog. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "Cape Foot". Sizes. http://www.sizes.com/units/cape_foot.htm. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
- ↑ "Instructions for the Conversions of Areas to Metric". Law Society of South Africa. November 2007. http://www.lawsoc.co.za/webs/surveyorgeneral/2007_11_area_conversion.doc. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ↑ Tomasz Zakiewicz (April 2005). "The Cape Geodetic Standards and Their Impact on Africa". FIG, Cairo. http://www.fig.net/pub/cairo/papers/wshs_03/wshs03_02_zakiewich.pdf. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
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