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Definition :

Significavit, a writ issuing out of the Chancery upon certificate given by the ordinary of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the keeping him in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the Church. See 53 Geo. 3, c. 127, and Ex parte Dale, (1881) 6 QBD 381, in which case Lord Penzance in 1880 issued a significavit against the Rev. Mr. Dale for disobedience to his inhibition.

Also, another writ, addressed to the judges, commanding them to stay any suit depending between such and such parties by reason of an excommunication alleged against the plaintiff, etc., Reg. Brev. 7.