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Original Writ or Original

Original Writ or Original [breve originale, Lat.], was the beginning or foundation … that either the clerks of the Chancery (who prepared the original writ) had no authority to devise new forms for such cases,

original writ

original writ see writ

writ

course of a proceeding or to enforce a judgment compare original writ in this entry original writ : a writ formerly used … to enforce a judgment compare original writ in this entry original writ : a writ formerly used in England that issued out

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Certiorari

Certiorari (to be more fully informed of), an original writ issuing out of the Crown side of the King's Bench

Case, action on the

failure to pay), see the Chancery writ, consimili casu, and ORIGINAL WRIT. As the technical mode of pleading at Common Law was

Breve

sheriffs, or other officers, Skene, de verb. 'Breve.' See WRIT; ORIGINAL WRIT; JUDICIAL WRIT. Breve income-tax act dicitur, quia rem de qua

Fine

five essential parts to the levying of a fine:-(1) The original writ of right, usually of covenant, issued out of the Common

Pone

or Common Pleas by writ of pone. It was an original writ obtained from the cursitor, bearing teste after the entry of

Quare impedit

Law Procedure Act, 1860, the action was commen-ced by an original writ issuing out of Chancery but s. 26 of that Act

Middlesex, Bill of

to be commenced by bill, in all other cases by original writ. See 3 Bl. Com. 285; App. xviii. Both are abolished

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