Perambulation

Travelling around or throughout; walking around boundaries, to inspect and settle them. Perambulation of the forest was the surveying or walking about the forest, and the utmost limits of it, by justices or other officers thereto assigned, to set down and preserve the metes and bounds thereof. Perambulation of parishes was to be made, by the minister, church-wardens, and parishioners, by going round the same once a year, in or about Ascension week; and the parishioners may justify going over any man's land in their perambulation, according to usage. There was also a perambulation of manors; also, a commission was giantable to other persons to make perambulation of towns, counties, &c., and to certify the same in the chancery or the common pleas, &c. Also, the district within which an officer is authorized to make a periodical tour of inspection is said to, be called sometimes a perambulation.

Perambulatione facienda

A writ which lies where two lordships lie near each other, and some encroachments are supposed to have been made, by which writ the parties consent to have their bounds severally known. It is directed to the sherifE, commanding him to make perambula^ tion, and to set down their certain limits. {F. N. B. 13.3.) Brown. Actions upon writs of perambulation were authorized in Scotland, by the act 1597, ch. 79, to settle the bounds of disputed properties adjoining each other.

Wharton.