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Indicavit (he has proclaimed), a writ of prohibition that lies for a patron of a church, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual Court by another clerk for tithes which amount to a fourth part of the profits of the advowson, when the suit belongs to the Common Law Courts, by West. 2, c. 5, 13 Edw. 1, st. 4. The patron of the defendant is allowed this writ, as he is likely to be prejudiced in his church and advowson if the plaintiff recover in the spiritual Court, Reg. Brev. 55.