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venire facias

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

underwrite

underwrite -wrote [-rōt, -rōt] -writ·ten [-rit-n, -rit-n] -writ·ing 1 a : to assume liability for (a risk) as an insurer [the insurer s individuals, not the group, in franchise health insurance] b : to issue or...

coram nobis

coram nobis [Latin, in our presence] : writ of error coram nobis at writ

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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)

Manucaptio

Manucaptio, 1. Surety; security; bail. 2. A writ allowing a person to be admitted to bail, when the person had been arrested for a felony but

Causam nobis significes quare

Causam nobis significes quare, a writ to a mayor of a town, etc., who was by the king's writ demanded to give seisin of

return

of all residents in the ward] [ a list of jurors] b : to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty

Certificando de recognitione stapul'

Certificando de recognitione stapul', a writ commanding the mayor of the staple to certify to the Lord Chancellor a statute-staple taken before him where

H'retico comburendo, De

H'retico comburendo, De, an ancient common law writ against a heretic, who having been convicted of heresy by the bishop, abjured it, and afterwards fell into

Mandated territories

Mandated territories. Countries and islands, the regulation of which has been entrusted by mandate of the League of Nations

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