This study is a part of a larger examination of how the British cadastral survey of Palestine destroyed the communal (musha’) land system and institutionalized land conflict in Palestine. In this presentation, I point to how dispossession has been legitimated through cartography as, under the British Mandate, Historic Palestine was parceled into private property lots precisely to facilitate Zionist land purchases. I argue that this new “production of space” took place not only conceptually through maps but was re-enforced in everyday life through “space-discipline.” This follows E.P. Thompson’s seminal study of the production of modern time whereby the clock, a graphic symbol of centralized political authority, brought “time-discipline” into the rhythms of industrial workers. In line with Thompson, the late critical cartographer J.B. Harley, suggested that, so too have the lines on maps become “dictators” of a new modernist geography, introducing a dimension of “space-discipline” into modern life. Through archival research of studies, reports, and memoirs of the British cadastral survey in the 1920s-30s, I examine details on how this space-discipline was enforced, with special focus on the forms of resistance these new schemes met along the way. In so doing, I expose not only what the map produced but what it sought to destroy: practices of negotiation between neighbors and communities accountable to each other. Under the modern map regime, individual ownership of land is enforced, requiring individuals to defer to a centralized, removed authority for intervention. Such a production of space, I suggest, renders sharing the land between Israelis and Palestinians impractical and a resolution to the refugee question unthinkable.