Perambulation

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.

A travelling survey. A district within which a person has the right of inspection. A method in early Scotch and English history, and thence followed in the colonial period in United States, of determining and maintaining boundaries and monuments between tenants, and between neighboring parishes. Cent., Diet See Beating the Bounds; De Perambula-

A walking through, about or over; a going round a place to settle its boundaries, or for other purposes.

Travelling around or throughout; walking around boundaries, to inspect and settle them. Perambulation of the forest was the surveying or walking about the forest, and the utmost limits of it, by justices or other officers thereto assigned, to set down and preserve the metes and bounds thereof. Perambulation of parishes was to be made, by the minister, church-wardens, and parishioners, by going round the same once a year, in or about Ascension week; and the parishioners may justify going over any man's land in their perambulation, according to usage. There was also a perambulation of manors; also, a commission was giantable to other persons to make perambulation of towns, counties, &c., and to certify the same in the chancery or the common pleas, &c. Also, the district within which an officer is authorized to make a periodical tour of inspection is said to, be called sometimes a perambulation. Perambulatione facienda. A writ which lies where two lordships lie near each other, and some encroachments are supposed to have been made, by which writ the parties consent to have their bounds severally known. It is directed to the sherifE, commanding him to make perambula^ tion, and to set down their certain limits. {F. N. B. 13.3.) Brown. Actions upon writs of perambulation were authorized in Scotland, by the act 1597, ch. 79, to settle the bounds of disputed properties adjoining each other. Wharton.