amesurement (c.1292)
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amesurement (c.1292)

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[ FEW: 6/i,727a mensurare; Gdf: 1,263c amesurement; GdfC: ∅; TL: 1,348 amesurement; DEAF:  mesurer (amesurement); DMF:  amesurement; TLF: ∅; OED:  admeasurement n.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 30c admensuramentum ]
admesurement,  ammement;  mesurement  

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1lawadmeasurement (of dower, pasture, etc.): 
( 1317 )  Jeo ne pus la mesurement (l. l’amesurement?) suffrir par cesti bref  Ed II xxii 93
( 1372 )  la ou bref est mandé a viscount d’enquere de wast et de amesurement de pasture  ii 313
♦lawwrit of admeasurement: 
( 1317 )  en cas de parcenerie si l’un eyt plus dil heritage […] son parcener coheir put user l’amesurement  Ed II xxi 5
bref de amesurement
1lawwrit of admeasurement: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  si excés i soit, sicum avient acune foiz […] taunt cum les heirs soint de eynz age, tel excés porra estre repelé par bref de amesurement  ii 238
admensuratione 
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