Duty of commissioners in making partition.
Section 185
SEC. 185. Duty of commissioners in making partition. — Before making such partition, the commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath before the judge or clerk, or any justice of the peace of the province, that they will faithfully perform their duties as commissioners, which oath shall be filed in court with the other proceedings in the case. In making such partition, the commissioners shall view and examine the estate, after due notice to the parties to attend at such view and examination, and shall hear the parties as to their preference in the portions of the estate to be set apart to them and the comparative value thereof, and shall set apart the estate to the several parties in such lots or parcels as will be most advantageous and equitable, having due regard to the improvements, situation, and quality of the different parts thereof.