Extension

An enlargement, ordinarily, to time to do any act. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time, after their several claims become due and payable, before they will demand payment. Among the French, a similar agreement is known by the name of attermoiement. Merlin, Repert. mot "Attermoiement." EXTENSORES (Law Lat.) In old English law. Extenders or appraisers; the name of certain officers appointed to appraise and divid6 or apportion lands. It was their duty to make a survey, schedule, or inventory of the lands, to lay them out under certain heads, and then to ascertain the value of each, as preparatory to the division or partition. Bracton, fols.

72b, 75; Britt. c. 71; Fleta, lib. 5, c. 9, § 5; Barr. Obs. St. 103, note.