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• PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN
  
  The main imaginary line running north and south and crossing a base line at a definite point, used by surveyors for reference in location and describing land under the rectangular (government) survey system of legal description. (See base line, government survey system, legal description, meridian)
  
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