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Pone
Pone. If goods had been replevied by virtue of a replegiari facias (which was rarely if ever the case), the plaint in a County Court was removed into the King's Bench or Common Pleas by writ...
Venditioni exponas
Venditioni exponas, a judicial writ addressed to the sheriff, commanding him to expose to sale goods which he has already taken into his hands, to satisfy a judgment-creditor, Reg. Judic. 33. After delivery of this writ...
Wilful disobedience
Wilful disobedience, 'willful disobedience' to a writ issued by a court constitutes civil contempt, though mere failure to obey the writ may not constitute civil contempt depending upon the facts and circumstances of the case. The...
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Quare impedit
Quare impedit (wherefore he hindered), a real possessory action, which could formerly be brought only in the court of Common Pleas, and lies to recover a presentation, when the patron's right is disturbed, or to try...
Capias ad satisfaciendum
Capias ad satisfaciendum (that you take to satisfy); called in practice a ca. sa. A writ of execution of the highest nature, inasmuch as it deprived a person of liberty, till the satisfaction awarded be made....
Peerage
Peerage, the dignity of the lords, or peers of the realm. Where, on the death of a peer, doubts arise respecting the devolution of his dignity, and in all cases of long abeyance or other non-enjoyment...
Distringas
Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1) a...
praecipe
praecipe also pre·ci·pe [pre-sə-pē, prē-] n [Medieval Latin precipe, legal writ commanding a person to do something or show cause why he or she should not, from Latin praecipe, imperative of praecipere to give rules or...
Capias
Capias (that you take). The writ of capias (which was a writ directing the sheriff to take the body of the defendant), as a means of commencing an action at Common Law, was altogether abolished, and...
Non omittas
writ within the liberty. If a writ do not contain a non omittas clause, the sheriff directs his mandate either to the lord or the bailiff of the liberty, by whom the writ is executed and returned.
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