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Service
annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE. The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's
Habeas corpora juratorum
the King's Bench and Exchequer for the same purpose. Abolished by C.L.O. Act, 1852, s. 104. Is a writ or order requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court at a stated time and place to
Execution
R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLII., r. 17, of which allows immediate execution in ordinary cases. See PR'CIPE. The ordinary writs of execution are capia ad satisfaciendum; fieri facias; elegit; and habere facias possessionem. See these titles respectively, especially
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Leave to defend
'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months after being due, to be by writ of summons in a form provided by the Act, and, unless the defendant should within twelve days obtain
Non omittas
the liberty pro hac vice parcel of the sheriff's bailiwick, and the sheriff must enter and execute the writ within the liberty. If a writ do not contain a non omittas clause, the sheriff directs his mandate
supersedeas
supersedeas [Medieval Latin, you should desist (word used in the writ)] 1 : a common-law writ commanding a stay of legal proceedings that is issued under various conditions and
Pr'cipe
Pr'cipe (command), a slip of paper upon which the particulars of a writ are written; it is lodged in the office out of which the required writ is to be issued.
Scire facias
Scire facias [Lat.] (that you cause to know), a judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the
Statute staple
the king's hands; and in order to obtain possession of them, the conusee had to sue out a writ of Liberate, which was a writ out of Chancery, reciting the former writ, and commanding the sheriff to
Fine
fructus exitus et effectus legis. There are five essential parts to the levying of a fine:-(1) The original writ of right, usually of covenant, issued out of the Common Pleas against the conusor; and the pr'cipe, which
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