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pluries : of, relating to, or being a writ issued after the first and alias writs have proven ineffectual ...
Pluri
A combining form from L plus pluris more many as pluriliteral...
Pluries
Pluries (as often), a writ that issues in the third instance, after the first and the alias have been ineffectual. See EXECUTION....
Plus petitio, or Pluris petitio
Plus petitio, or Pluris petitio, when a demandant includes in his demand (in the intentio of the formula) more than his due. It happens in four ways. See Sand. Just....
Sequatur sub suo periculo
Sequatur sub suo periculo, a writ that lay where a summons ad warrantizandum was awarded, and the sheriff returned that he had nothing whereby he might be summoned; then issued an alias and a pluries, and if he came not in on the pluries, this writ issued, Ol N.B. 163....
alias
alias [Latin, otherwise, from alius other] : otherwise called : also known as [John Thomas Nolan, Legs Diamond] n : an assumed or additional name adj : issued after the original instrument has not produced any action [an tax warrant] [an summons] compare pluries ...
Pluries
A writ issued in the third place after two former writs have been disregarded...
Beau-pleader
Beau-pleader (to plead fairly), an obsolete writ upon the Statute of Malbridge (52 Hen. 3, c. 11), which enacted that neither in the circuits of the justices, nor in counties, hundreds, or courts-baron, any fines should be taken for fair pleading, i.e., for not pleading fairly or aptly to the purpose; upon this statute, them, this writ was ordained, addressed to the sheriff, bailiff, or him who shall demand such fine, prohibiting him to demand it; an alias, pluries, and attachment followed, Nat. Br. 596. It used to be had as well in respect of vicious as fair pleading by way of amendment-2 Inst. 122....
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 distringas to compel appearance, where defendant had a place of residence within England or Wales. The writ was abolished by the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 24, and the practice provided for by s. 17 substituted in its stead.(2) A distringas nuper vicecomitem, to compel the late sheriff to sell goods, etc., or to bring in the body.(3) A distringas in detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and if the defendant still continued obstinate, then (if the judgment had been by default or on demurrer) the sheriff summoned an inquest to ascertain the value of ...
Fieri facias
Fieri facias, usually abbreviated fi. fa. (that you cause to be made), a judicial writ of execution, the most commonly used that lies for him who has recovered any debt or damages in the King's Courts. It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he 'cause to be made' the sum recovered by the judgment, with interest at 4l. per cent. from the time of entered-up judgment, to be rendered to the party who sued it out. If the sheriff return nulla bona, an alias fi. fa. may issue; and upon that being returned, a pluries or testatum fi. fa. may be issued into another county. The 12th s. of the Judgments Act,1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), authorizes the sheriff to seize money, bank notes, cheques, bills of exchange, etc., of the person against whose effects the writ is sued out; but he cannot seize money or bank notes after the death of the debtor, Johnson v. Pickering, (1908) 1 KB 1.A writ of execution that directs a marshal or sheriff to seize and sell a defendants...
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