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De Peculio Actio

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Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

See Actio de peculio. DE PERAMBULATIONE FACIEN- DA, Breve, L. Lat. Writ for making perambulation. A writ which lay to ascertain the boundaries of lands, where parties were in doubt of the bounds of their lordships or of their towns; and which was done by walking about, through or between them. It was directed to the sheriff, commanding him to go with twelve knights of his county to the lands in question, and by their oath to cause a perambulation to be made between them, according to their respective metes and bounds, (per terras, metas et divisas.) Reg. Orig. 157 b. F. N.B. 133, D. See Perambulation.