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FATHOM Definition & Legal Meaning

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A nautical measure of six feet iu length. Occasionally used as a superficialmeasure of land and in mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-sixsquare feet. Nahaolelua v. Kaaa- hu, 9 Hawaii, 001.

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