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Hot spirited

Having a fiery spirit hot headed

Full hot

Very fiery

Firedrake

A fiery dragon

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Crantara

The fiery cross used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland

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

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

Writ

the High Court of Justice is commenced. See SUMMONS, and for other writs in actions see EXECUTION, ELEGIT, FIERI FACIAS, POSSESSION, and VENDITIONI EXPONAS. For writs not in actions, see CERTIORARI, MANDAMUS, PROHIBITION, and QUO WARRANTO. A

More or less

More or less (sive plus siveminus). These words in a contract, which rests in fieri, will only excuse a very small deficiency in the quantity of an estate; for if there be a

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...

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

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