SafeTex Aug 14, 2020:

@ AllegroTrans and all Wow, this has become complicated. I don't like "contours" as this suggests natural contours while your maps are more like "escarpments", possibly man-made especially in the Napoleonic map but no doubt making use of some natural contours/escarpments.

Your maps don't look like contour maps to me but they do both give some indication of "height" (I cannot deny that)

So maybe "relief/escarpment index map" ???

What do you think?

SafeTex

AllegroTrans Aug 14, 2020:

Hello Safetex I don't think the examples you quoted are very relevant. What we are comparing are two technical documents, not two professions.
I am extremely busy (40K words) and haven't had time to look at what each document contains, but just looking at the description of "tableau d'assemblage" given by the asker, I have my doubts whether the "index map" in England & Wales would resemble it. On top of that, what is an "English" equivalent anyway? Scotland, N. Ireland and the Channel Islands have different land registration systems to E&W, not to mention the Commonwealth countries. My solution would be a descriptive translation. I'll try to think of one in my sleep.

SafeTex Aug 13, 2020:

@ Allegro Hello
About your neutral, I remember having a similar conversation before with someone who said that "notaire" is NOT necessarily "notary" in a very general context as they do not have the same remits in French and English

My reply is that "advocat" would not be "lawyer" for example then if we applied that logic.

I mean, even "policier" would not generally be "policeman" then as they too may have different powers in different countries.

I think that unless we are faced with a specific dilemma such as "notary" or "bailiff" or "court official", we can't get too bogged-down in such detail or we would not be able to translate anything without a further explanation

What do you think?

Regards