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fieri facias
fieri facias [Medieval Latin, literally, may you cause it to be done, from words used in the writ, typically de terris et cattalis fieri facias may you raise from the lands and chattels (of the defendant)
Appearance
or interested person, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 95. An appearance may be expressly made by formal written or oral declaration, or record entry, or it may be implied from some act done with the intention
Delivery of possession
Delivery of possession. This is obtained in an action by writ of possession (see POSSESSION, WRIT OF), and in the case of small tenements by a justice's order (see
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Excommunication
such person contumacious and in contempt, and to signify the same to the Court of Chancery; whereupon a writ de contumace capiendo shall issue having the same force as formerly belonged, in case of contempt, to a
Candidate
himself or by others to be a candidate on or after the day of the issue of the writ for such election, or after the dissolution or vacancy in consequence of which such writ has been issued.
Real action
Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 37, all real and mixed actions, except writ of right of dower, or writ of dower unde nihil habet, quare impedit, and ejectment, were abolished. By
Non implacitando aliquem de liberto tenemento sine brevi
Non implacitando aliquem de liberto tenemento sine brevi, a writ to prohibit bailiffs, etc., from distraining or impleading any man touching his freehold without the king's writ, e.g.
Pone per vadium
Pone per vadium, an obsolete writ to the sheriff to summon the defendant to appear and answer the plaintiff's suit, on his putting in
Premunire
Premunire. [Lat., to be forewarned] It is an offence so called from the words of the writ preparatory to the prosecution thereof: Premunire facias A.B. (cause A.B. to be forewarned) that he appear before us
Primer fine
Primer fine. One suing out the writ or pr'cipe, called a writ of covenant, there was due to the Crown, by ancient prerogative, a primer
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