Skip to content

Commanding - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Nobility

The quality or state of being noble superiority of mind or of character commanding excellence eminence

Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius

Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius, a writ directed to justices of the Common Pleas, commanding them to direct their writ to a bishop, for the admitting a clerk in the place of another

VerbarMandamus

by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal or to some corporation or person exercising authority commanding the performance of some specified duty

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Cognitionibus mittendis

or other who has power to take a fine, who having taken the fine defers to certify it, commanding him to certify it, Reg. Brev. 68.

Pentecoster

An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men

Inquiry, writ of

laid, stating the proceedings in an action, and 'because it is unknown what damages the plaintiff has sustained,' commanding the sheriff that, by the oath of twelve men of his county, he diligently inquire into the same,

Optional writ

Optional writ, a praceipe, so called because it was in the alternative,commanding the defendant to do the thing required, or show the reason wherefore he had not done it.

Nonintromittendo, quando breve pr'cipe in capite subdole impetratur

breve pr'cipe in capite subdole impetratur, a writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, commanding them not to give one who, under colour of entitling the king of land, etc., as holding of

Moderata miscericordia

quality of quantity of the offence; it was addressed to the lord of the court, or his bailiff, commanding him to take a moderate amerciament of the parties, New Nat. B. 167; Fitz. N.B. 76.

Mainprize

[fr. main, Fr., and pris, taken]. The writ of mainprize, manucaptio, was a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties for a prisoner's appearance, usually called mainpernors, and to set him at large, 3

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial