uitvalgrond, noun

/ˈeɪtfalˌxrɔnt//ˈœɪtfalˌxrɔnt/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, uitval fall out, disagree + grond ground.
Law
see quotation 1925. See also inkruip plaas.
1905 Transvaal Law Reports, Supreme Court 1904 709Pieces of uitval grond between farms were to be sold by auction, when they could not be more profitably let.
1925 W.H.S. Bell S. Afr. Legal Dict. 562Uitval grond,..small pieces of land remaining over between surveyed or unsurveyed farms.
1943 L. Sowden Union of S. Afr. 128Johannesburg was first laid out on a triangular piece of uitvalgrond — a piece of no man’s land that no man, till then, had wanted.
1960 J.J.L. Sisson S. Afr. Judicial Dict. 820Uitval grond, Small pieces of land remaining over between surveyed or unsurveyed farms.
1962 A.P. Cartwright Gold Miners 225Nineteen miles to the east of Johannesburg lay Benoni...The story goes that Rissik had the greatest difficulty in deciding where the boundaries of this uitvalgrond (literally an odd piece of ground surrounded by farms) fell. To mark the trouble it had given him he called it after Rachel’s son whom she named Benoni, the ‘son of my sorrow’.
1967 E. Rosenthal Encycl. of Sn Afr. 577The most famous piece of Uitvalgrond was the farm Randjeslaagte on which the city of Johannesburg was laid out.
1978 Sunday Times 12 Nov. (Mag. Sect.) 9The unoccupied uitvalgrond was the obvious choice of the staatsraad for the site of the proposed new town on the goldfields.
[1988 J. Scott in Cape Times 5 Dec. 6It (sc. the town of Boksburg) was built on what was called, in the 19th century, ‘uitvalgrond’ because everybody who went there had a fall-out over what side of the hole people of colour were allowed to stand.]
1990 C. Laffeaty Far Forbidden Plains 90There is a piece of land between the van Tonder farm and Jakkalsdrif which both of them claim, and because neither will give way it has become uitvalgrond.
see quotation 1925.
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uitspan, verbv.ukubuyisa, nounn.
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