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Quare ejecit infa terminum
term), a writ which lay by the ancient law where the wrongdoer or ejector was not himself in possession of the lands, but another who claimed under him. Quare ejecit infra terminum, and why he ejected within … Edn., p. 1256. Means for this injury the law has provided him with two remedies ...... .. the writ of quare ejecti infra terminum; which lies not against the wrongdoer or ejector himself, but his feoffee or other
Ejectment
by default, by which the actual tenant would be turned out of possession by the sheriff under a writ of habere facias poss-essionem. The title of the action, after the tenant's appearance, stood thus:'Doe (the fictitious lessee), on
Leave to defend
where the plaintiff seeks merely to recover a debt or liquidated demand (see QUANTUM MERUIT) in money, or possession where a tenancy has expired or been determined by notice to quit, or has become liable to forfeiture … 'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months after being due, to be by writ of summons in a form provided by the Act, and, unless the defendant should within twelve days obtain leave
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Statute staple
the king's hands; and in order to obtain possession of them, the conusee had to sue out a writ of Liberate, which was a writ out of Chancery, reciting the former writ, and commanding the sheriff to deliver
Occupavit
a writ that lay for him who was ejected from his freehold in time of war, as the writ of novel disseisin lay for one disseised in time of peace. Means a writ to regain possession to land
Assistance, writ of
Matched in: Term Assistance, writ of
Liberate
to the treasurer and chamberlain of the Exchequer. Also a writ to the sheriff for the delivery of possession of lands and goods extended or taken upon the forfeiture of a recognizance. Also a writ that issued
Interdict, Interdiction
done; they were chiefly employed in disputes as to possession, or quasi-possession, and were nearly equivalent to our writ of injunction. For a division of them, see Sand. Just. Also, in Scots Law, an injunction
Livery
means the delivery of the feudal possession'; Williams on Seisin, p. 99. Also, release from wardship; also the writ by which possession was obtained; also, simply delivery, as a horse is said to stand at livery where … Livery [fr. livrer, Fr.,], the act of giving possession, now superseded by the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.106), s. 2. 'Livery of seisin
Habere facias seisinam
Habere facias seisinam (that you cause to have possession), a writ addressed to the sheriff to give seisin of a freehold estate recovered by ejectione firm' or
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