perambulatione facienda

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perambulatione facienda - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PERAMBULATIONE FACIENDA, WRIT DE, Eng. 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. F. N. B. 309. 
       2. "The writ de perambulatione facienda is not known to have been 
  adopted in practice in the United States," says Professor Greenleaf, Ev. 
  Sec. 146 note, "but in several of the states, remedies somewhat similar in 
  principle have been provided by statutes."