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levari facias [New Latin, you should cause to be levied] : a common-law writ of execution for the satisfaction of a judgment debt from the goods and lands of the judgment debtor used chiefly in Delaware compare fieri facias ...
Levari facias
Levari facias (that you caused to be levied), a writ of execution at Common Law, commanding the sheriff to levy or make of the lands and chattels of the judgment-debtor the sum recovered by the judgment. The sheriff was not authorized to sell or extend the lands, or deliver them to the creditor, but could only collect the debt from the issues and profits of the land, and from the sale of the chattels. This writ, long superseded by the writ of elegit, was formally abolished by the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, s. 146, sub-s. 2....
Scire facias
Scire facias [Lat.] (that you cause to know), a judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record.The writ, though not abolished, is now out of use except in Crown Practice on the Revenue side of the King's Bench Division for recovery of Crown debts and also for rescinding Crown grants and charters, etc. Scire facias on recognizances and to repeal letters patent have been abolished: see as to patents, Patents and Designs Act, 1907. Formerly the issue of the writ was considered in some cases as an original proceeding; in others, interlocutory, and in the nature of process. Consult Hals. L.E., tit. 'Crown Practice.'A scire facias was formerly resorted to in Chancery suits, when they became abated; but this mode became superseded in practice by the order of revivor, which see....
fieri facias
fieri facias [Medieval Latin, literally, may you cause it to be done, from words used in the writ, typically de terris et cattalis fieri facias may you raise from the lands and chattels (of the defendant) (a given sum)] : a writ authorizing a sheriff to seize and sell certain items of the property of a debtor in order to satisfy a creditor's judgment against the debtor see also execution ...
scire facias
scire facias [Medieval Latin, you should cause to know] 1 : a judicial writ founded upon some matter of record and requiring the party proceeded against to show cause why the record should not be enforced (as by revival of the judgment), annulled, or vacated 2 : a legal proceeding instituted by a scire facias ...
venire facias
venire facias [Medieval Latin venire facias (juratores or juratam) may you cause (the jurors or the jury) to come (words used in the writ)] : a writ ordering a sheriff to summon a jury ...
Rehabere facias seisinam
Rehabere facias seisinam, a judicial writ which lay when the sheriff in the habere facias seisinam had delivered more than he ought, Reg. Judic. 13....
VerbarScire facias
A judicial writ founded upon some record and requiring the party proceeded against to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record or as in the case of scire facias to repeal letters patent why the record should not be annulled or vacated...
Do ut facias
Do ut facias (I give that you may perform)....
Exigent, or exigi facias
Exigent, or exigi facias (that your cause to be demanded), judicial writ commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant from county Court to county Court, or, if in London, from husting to husting, until he be outlawed; or if he appear, then to take and have him before the Court on a day certain to answer to the plaintiff in an action of, etc. see OUTLAW....
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