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alternative writ see writ … alternative writ see writ
writ
alternative to show cause a peremptory writ of prohibition compare alternative writ in this entry pre 183 rog 183 a 183 … wishes and commands 2 an order or mandatory process in writing issued in the name of the sovereign or of a
Magna assisa eligendia, Writ de
was instituted by henry ii in parliament by way of alternative offered to the choice of the tenant or defendant in … to the choice of the tenant or defendant in a writ of right instead of the barbarous and unchristian custom of
Deliverance, second, writ of
the defendant and deliver them to the plaintiff or the writ will operate in the sheriff s hand as a supersedeas
Restitution, Writ of
1 and generally if money etc be levied under a writ of execution and the judgment be afterwards reversed or set
Optional writ
writ a praceipe so called because it was in the alternative commanding the defendant to do the thing required or show … optional writ a praceipe so called because it was in the alternative
Ground-writ
a ground writ into the latter county and then another writ which was called a testatum writ into the former the
Original Writ or Original
but ex mera gratia and were some times denominated discretionary writs de ventre inspiciendo supplicavit certiorari prohibition writs of error in
Writ
the orders and sentences of the courts for the particular writs see their distinctive names as assistance capias etc the english
Inquiry, writ of
into the same and return the inquisition into court the writ is necessary after an interlocutory judgment the defendant having let
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