Admeasurement

Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits or in definite and fixed proportions.

— Admeasurement of dower. In practice. A remedy which lay for the heir on reaching his maj'ority to rectify an assignment of dower made during his minority, by which the dower-ess had received more than she was legally entitled to. 2 Bl. Comm. 136; Gilb. Uses, 379. In some of the states the statutory proceeding enabling a widow to compel the assignment of dower is called "admeasurement of dower."

— Admeasurement of pasture. In English law. A writ which lies between those that have common of pasture appendant, or by vicinage, in cases where any one or more of them' surcharges the common with more cattle than they ought. Bract, fol. 229a; 1 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 318, § 358.

— Admeasurement, writ of. It lay agninst persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases Admeasurement of dower, and admeasurement of pasture. Termes de 1a Ley.

A measuring out; an assignment or adjustment by measure or according to certain proportions; the name of a common-law writ for making such an assignment Admeasurement of dower: a writ wljich lies at suit of the heir against the widow where she holds or has taken by assignment more land than she ia lay by a person having a right of common in pasture against another who had surcharged the common with more cattle than he ought, to adjust the rights of pasture.

Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in definite and fixed proportions,

Ascertainment; apportionment. A writ which lay against one who usurped more than his share; as, of pasture, dower or other right."

[L. Lat. admensuratio, amensuratio.l A measuring out: an assignment by measure; an adjustment, or allotment according^ to certain fixed limits, or in certain proportions. The name of the writ for making such assignment or adjustment, and which lay at common law against persons who usurped more than their share of any right or privilege. See infra,