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Premunire

Premunire. [Lat., to be forewarned] It is an offence so called from the words of the writ preparatory to the prosecution thereof: Premunire facias A.B. (cause A.B. to be forewarned) that he appear before us to answer the contempt wherewith he stands charged; which contempt is particularly recited in the preamble to the writ....

Pr'munire

Pr'munire [fr. pr'moneri Lat., to be forewarned]. It is an offence so called from the words of the writ preparatory to the prosecution thereof: pr'munire facias A.B. (cause A.B. to be forewarned) that he appear before us to answer the contempt wherewith he stands charged; which contempt is particularly recited in the Preamble to the writ. The offence of pr'munire is, in effect, described by Balckstone to be 'introducing a foreign power into the land, and creating imperium in imperio, by paying that obedience to alien process which constitutionally belonged to the King alone'; see 4 Bl. Com. pp. 103 et seq.The statute of pr'munire (which are all still unrepealed, and are of the most confused character) were framed to encounter papal usurpation by presentation of aliens to English benefices. The first of them, called the Statutes of Provisors, was passed in 1350, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Edward III., and was the foundation of all the subsequent statute of pr'munire, of wh...

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