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Occupavit

Occupavit, a writ that lay for him who was ejected from his freehold in time of war, as the writ of novel disseisin lay for one disseised in time of peace. Means a writ to regain...

Leave to defend

Leave to defend. The repealed (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict.c.67), commonly called 'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months after being due, to be by writ...

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....

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Liberate

Liberate, a writ that lay for the payment of a yearly pension or other sum of money, granted under the Great Seal, and addressed to the treasurer and chamberlain of the Exchequer. Also a writ to...

Nonintromittendo, quando breve pr'cipe in capite subdole impetratur

Nonintromittendo, quando breve pr'cipe in capite subdole impetratur, a writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, commanding them not to give one who, under colour of entitling the king of land, etc.,...

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...

Pr'cipe

Pr'cipe (command), a slip of paper upon which the particulars of a writ are written; it is lodged in the office out of which the required writ is to be issued. A pr'cipe must be filed...

Quod permittat

Quod permittat, a writ which, before the abolition of real actions, lay against any person who erected a building, though on his own ground, so near to the house of another that it hung over or...

Habeas corpora juratorum

Habeas corpora juratorum, Law Latin (that you have the bodies of the jurors), a process which issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar to...

Service

Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which...

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