Extend

[L. Lat. extenders; L. Fr. estsndre.l In English practice. To value the lands or tenements of a person bound by a statute or recognizance which has become forfeited, to their full extended value. 3 Bl. Com. 420. F. N. B. 131. To execute the writ of extent or extendi fadas^ (q. V.) 2 Tidd's Fr. 1043, 1044. This term seems to be considered synonymous with value, although the latter word is always used in connexion with it. So, in the oldest forms, both words occur; — extenders et appreciare, — extendi et appre" ciari, — exientio or extenta et appreciation Bract, fol. 72. Id. fol. 76 b. Beg. Jud. 2, 32 b. It would appear that its proper original meaning was to lay out land, or to ma Ke an inventory of it under certain heads, as preparatory to appraisement. This may be gathered from the use of the term in Bracton, as applied to the partition of estates. Sec Extenders, Extensores, Extenta.