De Æstimato
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Roman law. One of the innominate contracts, and, in effect, a sale of land or goods at a price fixed (aesiimato) and guaranteed by some third party, who undertook to find a purchaser. DE AETATE PROBANDA (Law Lat.) Writ of (about) proving age. An old writ which lay to the escheator or sheriff of a county to summon a jury to inquire whether the heir of a tenant in' capite, claiming his estate on the ground of full age, was, in fact, of age or not.
Reg. Orig. 294; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 257.