Admeasurement, Writ Of
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Admeasurement, writ of. It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases; admeasurement of dower, where the widow held from the heir more land, etc., as dower than rightly belonged to her; and admeasurement of pasture, which lay where any one having common of pasture surcharged the common, Termes de la Ley.
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