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fieri facias
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Fieri facias
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Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis
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fi. fa.
fi. fa. fieri facias
Execution
which allows immediate execution in ordinary cases. See PR'CIPE. The ordinary writs of execution are capia ad satisfaciendum; fieri facias; elegit; and habere facias possessionem. See these titles respectively, especially FIERI FACIAS. As to the protection of vendor … of execution are capia ad satisfaciendum; fieri facias; elegit; and habere facias possessionem. See these titles respectively, especially FIERI FACIAS. As to the protection of vendor or purchaser on a sale under an execution, see Bankruptcy and Deeds
levari facias
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execution
3 : the process of enforcing a judgment (as against a debtor) ;also : a judicial writ (as fieri facias) by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect see also levy
Chattels or catals
or in a more narrow and more modern sense, 'chattels' (cf. 'goods and chattels' in the writ of fieri facias) (q.v.), means movable property or effects which belong personally to the owner and for which if they are
Elegit
which it became, in the election of a party having recovered judgment, either to have a writ of fieri facias (see that title) or else to seize all the chattels and half the land of the judgment debtor
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 the action
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