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fi. fa.
fi. fa. fieri facias
Fieri facias
Fieri facias, usually abbreviated fi. fa. (that you cause to be made), a judicial writ of … it out. If the sheriff return nulla bona, an alias fi. fa. may issue; and upon that being returned, a pluries or
Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis
of the ecclesiastical goods). When a sheriff to a common fi. fa. returns nulla bona, and that the defendant is a beneficed … not having any lay fee, a plaintiff may issue a fi. fa. de bonis ecclesiasticis, addressed to the bishop of the diocese,
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Contribution
in contract, if the goods of one be taken by fi. fa. For the whole amount of judgment. There was no contribution
False return
False return by sheriff on nulla bona to writ of fi. fa, after levying is actionable; for form of claim, see Bullen
Ground-writ
Act, 1852, a ca. Sa. (capias ad satisfaciendum, (q.v.) or fi. fa. (fieri facias, q.v.) could not be issued into a county
Nulla bona
(in goods), a return made by a sheriff to a fi. fa., etc., when there is no property to levy upon.
Receiver
whom judgment has been obtained cannot be made available by fi. fa., elegit, or other ordinary process of execution; as to the
Remanent pro defectu emptorum
want of buyers). A sheriff's return to a writ of fi. fa.
Venditioni exponas
sued out where it appears upon the return of a fi. fa. that the sheriff has seized goods but not sold them.
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