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non est inventus [Latin, he or she has not been found] : the return of a sheriff on a writ or process when the defendant or person to be served or arrested is not found in the jurisdiction ...
Non est inventus
Non est inventus, a sheriff's return to a writ when the defendant is not to be found in his bailiwick....
Quinto exactus
Quinto exactus, means 'exacted the fifth time'. A sheriff's return made after a defendant had been called to five county courts but failed to appear. The county coroners then ordered that the defendant be deprived of the benefits of the law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1261.Means if a non est inventus is returned upon all of them, a writ of exigent or exigi facias may be sued out, which requires the sheriff to cause the defendant to be proclaimed, required, or exacted, in five county courts successively, to render himself, and if he does, then to take him, as in a capias; but if he does not appear, and is returned quinto exactus, he shall then be outlawed by the coroners of the county, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 3 William Blackstone 283 (1768).Quinto exactus, the fifth or last call or requisition of a defendant sued to outlawry. See Cowel, voce 'Quint-exact....
Sequestration
Sequestration. This is a prerogative process (formerly confined to the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Probate and Divorce), addressed to certain commissioners empowering them to enter upon real estates, and sequester the rents, and upon the goods, chattels, and personal estate of a person in contempt for disobedience of a decree or order, and keep the same until the defendant clear his contempt. It has no return, and is granted upon a return of non est inventus by the sergeant-at-arms, or by a sheriff on an attachment, 1 Eq. Rep. 261. See R.S.C. Ord. XLIII., r. 6. It is the mode of enforcing an order against a corporation in the case of the ordr having been 'wilfully disobeyed.' See R.S.C. Ord. XLII., r. 31, and Stancomb v. Trowbridge Urban Council, (1910) 2 Ch 190....
Thesaurus inventus est vetus dispositio pecuni', etc., cujus nonextat modo memoria, adeo ut jam dominum non habeat
Thesaurus inventus est vetus dispositio pecuni', etc., cujus nonextat modo memoria, adeo ut jam dominum non habeat. 3 Inst. 132.-(Treasure-trove is an ancient store of money, etc., of which no recollection exists, so that it now has no owner.)...
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