Perambulate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Perambulation
usage, and it is said may abate all nuisances in their way, Cro. Eliz. 441. Manors are also perambulated, Wheat. Com Pr. 234. See PARISH BOUNDARIES.
Perambulator
One who perambulates
perambulating
Strolling or walking around as in the field we met some perambulating veterans
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Perambulation
The act of perambulating traversing
Perambulate
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Parish Boundaries
perpetuate the memory of parish boundaries it was anciently the custom for the parishioners to walk round or perambulate the parish generally during Rogation Week. This was called 'beating the bounds.' Although the fixing of parish boundaries
Perambulatione facienda
writ which lay where any encroachments had been made by a neighbour-ing lord, etc., to the sheriff to perambulate or settle the bounds. See Jac. Law Dict. Actions upon writs of perambulation were authorized in Scotland, by
Orograph
making topographical maps It is operated by being pushed across country and not only records distances like the perambulator but also elevations
Gavelkind
Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths after 1925 except in regard to entailed estates, and descent from...
Puture
of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat, and dog's meat, of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest, hundred, etc. The land subject to this customis called terra putura. Others, who call it
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