APPRAISEMEN

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  APPRAISEMENT. A just valuation of property.
       2. Appraisements are required to be made of the property of persons
  dying intestate, of insolvents and others; an inventory (q.v.) of the goods
  ought to be made, and a just valuation put upon them. When property real or
  personal is taken for public use, an appraisement of it is made, that the
  owner may be paid it's value.