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The expansion of documentary practices in late medieval Halych Rus’ changed profoundly the process of delimiting boundaries and recording local knowledge about landscape. Relations between written and oral evidence in perambulations were restructured, creating new “written archives of tradition”. The paper discusses one such tradition, which was shaped by charters written in local Ruthenian language, as well as oral memories of Ruthenian nobles and clergy. The aim is to highlight communicative and performative contexts within which those charters were used as legal instruments. Those charters often lacked necessary information for establishing property boundaries. They had, however, a great symbolic importance for Ruthenian nobles and ecclesiastics as material bearers of the particular tradition, confirming rights of ownership. Their role was intertwined with the oral legal memories, which were articulated by Ruthenian landowners to meet their interests in perambulation disputes.