find and establish

find and establish
To ascertain and confirm that which was previously doubtful; as, for example, the pre-existing line, on the respective sides of which the parties had held the title ever since they became the proprietors of the adjoining lots. Weeks v Trask, 81 Me 127, 16 A 413.

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