inkruip plaas, noun phrase

/ˈənkreɪplɑːs//ˈənkrœɪplɑːs/
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Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, inkruip creep in + plaas (earlier Dutch plaats) farm.
obs. except in historical contexts, Law
A farm obtained by squatting upon and claiming disputed land between two adjoining farms. See also uitvalgrond.
a1912 Bloemfontein Post (Pettman)Floores Tromp,..under the impression that the owners of Boschhoek and Waterval claimed more land than they were entitled to, squatted on the south side of the Incandu River, near the Drift, and put in an application for any spare land which might be held by the original grantees. When the surveyor, Mr. Bell, came along a couple of years later, he cut off nearly 3000 acres from the adjoining farms, and Tromp obtained the inkruip plaats.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 227In early days in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal when an applicant for a Request farm..could find no suitable vacant site, he would sometimes squat between two such farms the owners of which had included (not an uncommon occurrence) within their boundaries much more than the stipulated 3000 morgen, and at the survey would claim the excess land from each or both to make up his required area. Such a farm was known as an Inkruip plaats.
1967 E. Rosenthal Encycl. of Sn Afr. 260Inkruip Plaas, (literally ‘Creeping-in Farm’). A farm established in the early days on a piece of ground, the neighbouring owners of which were in dispute about their boundaries.
1990 C. Laffeaty Far Forbidden Plains 275I question him about uitvalgrond,..and he told me that under Roman-Dutch law the land may be claimed by an outsider as what is called an Inkruipplaas.
A farm obtained by squatting upon and claiming disputed land between two adjoining farms.
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