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High Steward, Court of the Lord

regularly removed by certiorari, the Lord High Steward addresses a precept to a serjeant-at-arms, to summon the lords to attend and

mean an order issued to a particular individual or a precept which many may have to follow. It may be a

Auxilium curi', a precept or order of Court citing and convening a party, at

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to take or apprehend by commandant or a writ or precept. It differs from arrest, because it takes not only the

and transferring records from one court to another. Also a precept or command in writing, directed to the gaoler or keeper

an obligation to convey without a procuratory of resignation or precept of sasine. There are thus (1) the adjudication for debt;

Command precept injunction

specific purpose an authoritative enactment a regulation a prescription a precept as the rules of various societies the rules governing a

of law 1 : an authoritative legal doctrine, principle, or precept applied to the facts of an appropriate case [adopting the

or injunction given by authority a command a charge a precept a mandate

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