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Pone per vadium

Pone per vadium, an obsolete writ to the sheriff to summon the defendant to appear and answer the plaintiff's suit, on his putting in sureties to pro-secute: it was so called from the words of the writ, pone per vadium et salvos plegios-'put by gage and safe pledge, A.B., the defendant.'...