Perambulation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act of walking over and about the boundaries of a district manor, parish, or piece of land with or without witnesses, either for the purpose of determining them, or of preserving evidence of them, and to see that no encroachments have been made, or that landmarks )iave not been removed. Thus, in many parishes in England, it is the custom for the parishioners to perambulate the boundaries of the parish in rogation week in every year. Such a custom entitles them to enter any man's land and abate nuisances in their way.
Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1867; Hunt, Boundaries, 103; Britt. 124b; 57 N. Hamp. 392.