hiatus

A break or gap. In discussions of land, an area of land that lies between two parcels but appears from legal descriptions and public records to not be a part of either.

Example: A parcel 1,000 feet by 1,000 feet has been divided. In writing the deeds, though, parcel C's description started at the southeast corner and proceeded northward only 495 feet rather than the full 500 feet necessary to meet the boundary with parcel B. The missing 5 feet is the hiatus. A court might hold that property C's grantor still owns the 5-foot parcel, or it might reform the deed, or it might find that the owner of parcel B adversely possessed the 5-foot parcel.

References in periodicals archive

have studied the various morphological patterns of circumferential muscle fibers forming the esophageal hiatus and classified them into six groups.

Duplicated right crus of the diaphragm: a cadaveric case report

Radiographically, there was an instinct adhesional obstruction on the level of esophageal hiatus Fig-1A.

Treatment of late complication of colon interposition for corrosive esophageal burns

(16.) Filler AM, Randolph JG, Gross RE: Esophageal hiatus hernia in infants and children.

Esophageal motility dysfunction in children with Rett syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux, and dysphagia

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