admeasurement (s as zh)

[AD MEASURE.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of measuring. "In some counties they are not much acquainted with admeasurement by acre; and thereby the writs contain twice or thrice so many acres more than the land bath."- Bacon . 2. The state of being measured. 3. The dimensions ascertained, B. Technically: Law . A writ of admeasurement is a writ directed to the sheriff, and designed in two specified cases to reduce to their proper share of goods or privileges those who have obtained more than a fair amount of either. The two cases are called Admeasurement of Dower and Admeasurement of Pasture. The former is had recourse to when an heir (being under age) or his guardian a igns to the widow of the former occupant of an estate inore dower chargeable against it than she is fairly entitled to; and the latter is put in force when a person not having the privilege of sending his cattle to graze upon a common does so, or one who has the privilege puts in more than a reasonable number, or in place of "commonable animals," such as cows and sheep, sends "uncommon able ones," as, for instance, hogs and goats. (See Black stone's Comm., bk. ii., ch. 8; bk. iii., chaps. 10 & 16.) ad-měa-sur-er (ş as zh), s. [ADMEASURE.] One who admeasures. ad-měa-sur-ing (ş as zh), pr. par. & 8. [ADMEASURE.]