View

u. A legal examination by the eye, or inspection of any subjectmatter in question. View, v.: to inspect. Viewer: a person appointed to make and report upon ocular examination; particularly of a highway route. Thus, in real actions, a jury of view was allowed, to inspect the premises in dispute; on a petition to open a highway, viewers are appointed, to inspect the line of road applied for, and report on its advantage and practicability; a coroner's inquest on a person found dead is expected to view the body; on various trials, where to see the spot where a crime is alleged to have been committed, or an occurrence drawn in question took place, is important to enable the juiy to understand the testimony regarding it, they may be sent out to view it. And there are other like uses of the word. View, in a statute directing the sheriff's jury to " view the premises," means more than " look at." They are to examine the land both from within and without the location of the railroad. Wakefield v. Boston, &c.

K. R. Co., 63 Me. 385.