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Wilful disobedience

Wilful disobedience, 'willful disobedience' to a writ issued by a court constitutes civil contempt, though mere failure to obey the writ may not constitute civil

all cases of long abeyance or other non-enjoyment of a peerage, the Lord Chancellor will not issue his writ of summons to a claimant without a previous investigation of his title, in order to which the claimant

praecipe

praecipe also pre·ci·pe [pre-sə-pē, prē-] n [Medieval Latin precipe, legal writ commanding a person to do something or show cause why he or she should not, from Latin praecipe,

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Capias

Capias (that you take). The writ of capias (which was a writ directing the sheriff to take the body of the defendant), as a

Capias ad satisfaciendum

Capias ad satisfaciendum (that you take to satisfy); called in practice a ca. sa. A writ of execution of the highest nature, inasmuch as it deprived a person of liberty, till the satisfaction awarded

Pone

the case), the plaint in a County Court was removed into the King's Bench or Common Pleas by writ of pone. It was an original writ obtained from the cursitor, bearing teste after the entry of the

Quare impedit

to the passing of the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1860, the action was commen-ced by an original writ issuing out of Chancery but s. 26 of that Act did away with this singularity of procedure, which

Recovery

land. The procedure in such an action for the recovery of land was as follows: X. brought a writ of recovery against Y. in respect of land which Y. had bought from Z. Y. called upon Z.

Venditioni exponas

Venditioni exponas, a judicial writ addressed to the sheriff, commanding him to expose to sale goods which he has already taken into his

Costs

not less than twenty pounds within the time limited in that behalf by the endorsement made on the writ in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court; or (b) the plaintiff, within twenty-eight days after the

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