Perambulation in United States
Perambulation Definition
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. de. In English law. The name of a writ which is sued by consent of both parties when they are in doubt as to the bounds of their respective estates. It is directed to the sheriff to make perambulation, and to set the bounds and limits between them in certainty. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 309. “The writ de perannbulatione facienda is not known to have been adopted in practice in the United States,” says Professor Greenleaf (Greenl. Ev. § 146, note), “but in several of the states, remedies somewhat similar in principle have been provided by statutes.”
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| Perambulation | Perambulation in the World Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Perambulation | Perambulation in the European Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Perambulation | Perambulation in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Perambulation | Perambulation in the UK Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Perambulation | Perambulation in the Australian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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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. de. In English law. The name of a writ which is sued by consent of both parties when they are in doubt as to the bounds of their respective estates. It is directed to the sheriff to make perambulation, and to set the bounds and limits between them in certainty. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 309. “The writ de perannbulatione facienda is not known to have been adopted in practice in the United States,” says Professor Greenleaf (Greenl. Ev. § 146, note), “but in several of the states, remedies somewhat similar in principle have been provided by statutes.”
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