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Pentecoster

An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men

Praeligcipe

A writ commanding something to be done or requiring a reason for neglecting

Precipient

Commanding directing

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Ad inquirendum

Ad inquirendum, a judicial writ commanding inquiry to be made of anything relating to a cause

Writ

the name of a state or other competent legal authority, commanding addressee to do or refrain from doing some specified act,

Venditioni exponas

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

VerbarFieri facias

lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the

Distringas

A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or

Statute staple

a writ out of Chancery, reciting the former writ, and commanding the sheriff to deliver to the conusee all the lands,

officer

authority or command in the armed forces [insubordinate to his commanding ]

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