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As the Cossacks knew very little about land-surveying, and still less about land-registration, the precise boundary between two contiguous yurts as the communal land of a stanitsa was called was often a matter of uncertainty and a fruitful source of disputes. When the boundary was once determined, the following method of registering it was employed.
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