Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Thence
adv. 1. From that place; from that time. In surveying, and in describing land by courses and distances, this word, preceding each course given, implies that the following course is continuous with the one before it <south 240 feet to an iron post, thence west 59 feet>. 2. On that account; therefore.
thence down the river
With the meanders of a river. ( This phrase appears in the field notes of patent surveyors, indicating that the survey follows a meandering river unless evidence shows that the meander line as written was where the surveyor in fact ran it. See MEANDER LINE.