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Tom Adams
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(edit: Maybe I should have said "new word of the day" in the thread title. Obviously it's an old word)
I subscribe to Merriam Webster "Word of the Day" for fun, and found this in the explanation of "purlieu". Thought I would share for those who haven't really heard of this "perambulation" stuff.

"In medieval England, if you wished to assert the extent of your land, you might hold a ceremony called a https://www.drhinternet.net/ga/click/2-953531-6-600000406-600000646-600007796-6faec52684-65394cccf2&apos ;">perambulation, in which you would walk around and record your property's boundaries in the presence of witnesses. If your land bordered a royal forest, there could be some confusion about where your land started and the royal forest ended. By performing a perambulation, you could gain some degree of ownership over disputed forest tracts, although your use of them would be restricted by forest laws. Such regained forest property was called a purlewe (or as it was later spelled, purlieu), which derives from the Anglo-French word for "perambulation."


 
Posted : December 27, 2016 11:09 am
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That word was all over a redvector CEU I completed last week.


 
Posted : December 27, 2016 11:28 am