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Fieri facias

Fieri facias, usually abbreviated fi. fa. (that you cause to be made), a judicial writ of execution, the most commonly used that lies for … to be rendered to the party who sued it out. If the sheriff return nulla bona, an alias fi. fa. may issue; and upon that being returned, a pluries or testatum fi. fa. may be issued into another

Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis

bonis ecclesiasticis (that you cause to be made of the ecclesiastical goods). When a sheriff to a common fi. fa. returns nulla bona, and that the defendant is a beneficed clerk, not having any lay fee, a plaintiff … and that the defendant is a beneficed clerk, not having any lay fee, a plaintiff may issue a fi. fa. de bonis ecclesiasticis, addressed to the bishop of the diocese, commanding him to make of the ecclesiastical goods

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Contribution

Equity, 393-415. So there is contribution between co-defendants in contract, if the goods of one be taken by fi. fa. For the whole amount of judgment. There was no contribution among wrongdoers, Merryweather v. Nixan, (1799) 8 TR

False return

False return by sheriff on nulla bona to writ of fi. fa, after levying is actionable; for form of claim, see Bullen and Leake, Prec. Of Pl. A process server's

Ground-writ

Ground-writ. Before the C.L.P. Act, 1852, a ca. Sa. (capias ad satisfaciendum, (q.v.) or fi. fa. (fieri facias, q.v.) could not be issued into a county different from that in which the venue in

Nulla bona

Nulla bona (in goods), a return made by a sheriff to a fi. fa., etc., when there is no property to levy upon.

Receiver

execution' where the property of a litigant against whom judgment has been obtained cannot be made available by fi. fa., elegit, or other ordinary process of execution; as to the appoint-ment of such a receiver, see Harris v.

Remanent pro defectu emptorum

Remanent pro defectu emptorum (they remain un-sold for want of buyers). A sheriff's return to a writ of fi. fa.

Venditioni exponas

1883, Ord.XLIII., r. 2, this writ may be 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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