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levy

or collection of a tax b : the seizure according to a writ of execution of real or personal property in a judgment debtor's possession to satisfy a judgment debt 2 : an amount levied : tax

Quod recuperet

recuperet [Lat.] [that he do recover (the debt or damages)], a final judgment for a plaintiff in a personal action. Means that he do recover. The ordinary judgment for a plaintiff in an action at law. The

Warrant of Attorney

executing it, and receive a statement of claim for him in an action at the suit of a person therein mentioned, and thereupon to confess the same, or to suffer judgment to pass by default and to

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Cognovit actionem

1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), s. 24, a warrant of attorney to confess judgment in any personal action, or cognovit actionem given by any person, is not of any force unless there is present some

Foreign Attachment

part of the defendant, such person shall find new surety to the plaintiff for the said debt, and judgment shall be that the plaintiff shall have judgment against him and that he shall be quit against the … reign o Edward IV., to be, that if a plaint be affirmed in London before, etc., against any person, and it be returned nihil, if the plaintiff will surmise that another person within the city is a

Quale jus

the judgment; it went forth to the escheator between judgment and execution, to inquire what right the religious person had to recover, or whether the judgment were obtained by the collusion of the parties, to the intent

Extirpatione

Extirpatione, a judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against a person who, when a verdict was found against him for land, etc., maliciously over threw any house or extirpated

Attachment

Bowen, LJ, Re Evans, (1892) 9 TLR 109. Means the seizing of a person's property to secure a judgment or to be sold in satisfaction of a judgment, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 123. … awarded by the judges at their discretion on a bare suggestion, or on their own knowledge, against a person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience

custody

is made c : official restraint on freedom (as by arrest or imprisonment or by release on bail, personal recognizance, probation, or parole) compare arrest constructive custody : custody of a person (as a parolee) who is … awarded to only one person and usually to a parent tem·po·rary custody : custody awarded until a final judgment in a matter (as a divorce) is made c : official restraint on freedom (as by arrest or

ministerial

existence of a specified state of facts in obedience to legal and esp. statutory mandate without exercise of personal judgment or discretion see also mandamus compare discretionary

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