De Æstimato
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Romanlaw. One of the innominate contracts, and, in effect, a sule of land or goods at a price fixed, (a@séimato,) and guarantied by some third party, who undertook to find a purchaser.