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Peremptory mandamus

Peremptory mandamus, a second mandamus, which issues where the return which has been made to the first writ is found either insufficient in law or false in fact. To this writ no other return will be

Non implacitando aliquem de liberto tenemento sine brevi

Non implacitando aliquem de liberto tenemento sine brevi, a writ to prohibit bailiffs, etc., from distraining or impleading any man touching his freehold without the king's writ, e.g.

Negotiorum gestor

acts wholly without authority, there can, strictly speaking, be no contract. But the Roman Law raised a quasi mandate, by implication, for the benefit of the owner in many of such cases. Nor is an implication of

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Ne injuste vexes

Ne injuste vexes, a writ founded on Magna Charta that lay for a tenant distrained by his lord, for more services than he

Quo minus

Quo minus, a writ which lay for him who had a grant of house-bote and hay-bote in another's woods against the grantor

Questus est nobis

Questus est nobis, a writ of nuisance which, by 15 Edw. 1, lay against him to whom a house or other thing that

Supplicavit

Supplicavit, a writ which issued out of Chancery for taking surety of the peace, upon Articles filed on oath, when one

Quo warranto

Quo warranto, a writ issuable out of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in the nature of a

Stabilia

Stabilia, a writ called by that name, founded on a custom in Normandy that where a man in power claimed lands

Middlesex, Bill of

Middlesex, Bill of, a writ anciently resorted to by the Court of King's Bench, in order to enlarge its jurisdiction in civil causes,

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