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Definition :

Occupavit, a writ that lay for him who was ejected from his freehold in time of war, as the writ of novel disseisin lay for one disseised in time of peace.

Means a writ to regain possession to land or a tenement from which one was ejected in time of war, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1107.