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Perambulation, a travelling through or over.Perambulation of parishes is to be made by the minister, churchwardens, and parishioners, by going round them once a year, in or about Ascension week; and the parishioners may well justify going over any man's land in their perambulation, according to 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....
perambulating
Strolling or walking around as in the field we met some perambulating veterans...
Perambulation
The act of perambulating traversing...
Perambulator
One who perambulates...
Parish Boundaries
Parish Boundaries, see 1 Vict. c. 69, s. 2; 2 & 3Vict. c. 62, ss. 34-6; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 15, s. 28; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 118, ss. 39-45; and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 83, ss. 1, 9. See also 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 278; and as to the better arrangement of divided parishes, see 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61. In order to 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 by Act of Parliament and the more general use of maps has done away with this necessity, perambulations still take place in many parishes. As to alteration of parish boundaries, see (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 141....
Perambulatione facienda
Perambulatione facienda, a 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 the Act 1597, c. 79, to settle the bounds of disputed properties adjoining each other....
Orograph
A machine for use in making topographical maps It is operated by being pushed across country and not only records distances like the perambulator but also elevations...
Perambulate
To walk through or over especially to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining to inspect by traversing specifically to inspect officially the boundaries of as of a town or parish by walking over the whole line...
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 a person of unsound mind, as provided by s. 51 (ibid.), and see (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 12th Sched. (1)(d), and Re Price, 1928 Ch 579. The word is derived from the Saxon word 'gafol,' or, as it is otherwise written, 'gavel,' which signifies 'rent' or a 'customary performance of husbandry works'; accordingly the land which yielded this kind of service, in contradistinction to knight-service land, was called 'GAVELKIND' that is 'land of the kind that yields rent.' Lambarde (Perambulations of Kent, Edn. 1656, p. 585) first advanced and promulgated this supposition, which does not seem to be sufficiently comprehensive since 'gavelkind' does not necessarily denote land subject to rent, in opposition to the opinion of Lord Coke, who traced the word to 'gave all kinde' 'for the custom giv...
Puture
Puture, a custom claimed by keepers in forests, and sometimes by bailiffs 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 pullture, explain it as a demand in general; and derive it from the monks, who before they were ad-mitted, pulsabant, knocked at the gates for several days together, 4 Inst. 307....
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