In old English law . Extenders or appraisers. The name of certainofficers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands. It was their duty to make asurvey, schedule, or inventory of the lands, to lay them out under certain heads, andthen to ascertain the value of each, as preparatory to the division or partition. Bractfols. 726, 75; Britt. c. 71.
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