from
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."