MONUMENT

1. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a d~ad body has been deposited. Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. {N. Y.) 202; In re Ogden, 25 R. I. 373, 55 Atl. 933. 2. In real-property law and surveying, monuments are visible marks or indications left on natural or other objects indicating the Itnes and boundaries of a survey. In this sense the term includes not only posts, pil• lars, stone markers, cairns, and the like, but also fixed natural objects, blazed trees, and even a watercourse. See Grier v. Pennsylvania Coal Co., 128 Pa. 79, 18 AtL 480; Cox "· Freedley, 33 Pa. 124, 75 Am. Dec. 584. Monument a qum nos record a vocamua ·sunt ver it at is et vetustatis vestigia. Co. Litt. 118. Monuments, which we call "records," are the vestiges of truth and antiq- •Uity. [s. 797]