IV.   Visitation

Visitation is an action and event of official survey, audit, censorship, examination or inspection concerning sovereign terrain as Geography, or Topography or Demography.

The word Visitation comes from the Latin visio meaning “to behold; to survey” and –atio to denote a noun as a result of the action of a verb.

By custom and history, a Sovereign may Visit in person or through a duly appointed agent according to the conventions:

(i) By Geography, a Sovereign Visitation is usually by Letters Patent to an official surveyor and explorer, empowered to provide a detailed written account of their Visit, measurements of the terrain; and

(ii) By Topography, A Sovereign Visitation is usually by Royal Warrant of Commission to a military commander or expedition to conquest and occupy a previously surveyed geographic terrain, usually through the formation of a permanent post or colony; and

(iii) By Demography, A Sovereign Visitation is usually by Royal Ambassador to a permanent colony, city, territory or state, usually involving a presentation, inspection and then pronouncement.