Note 237 — Book VII.
John Beames translation
Divisam, derived, according to Spelman, from the French term diviser, to partition or divide. (Spelm. Gloss.) It is sometimes used for a boundary of Land—metæ et rationabiles divisæ quæ ponuntur in terminis et finibus agrorum ad distinguendam prædia, says Fleta, L. 4. c. 2. s. 17. In this latter sense our author uses it. Infra, L. 9. c. 13. 14. &c.