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Admeasurement

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[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,