In old English law. Extenders or appraisers. The name of cer-tain officers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands. It was thelr duty to make a survey, schedule, or inventory of the lands, to lay them out under certain heads, and then to ascertain the value of each, as preparatory to the division or partition. Bract fols. 72b, 75; Britt, c. 71
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
