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Replevy

a writ for that purpose goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law and if that should be determined against the plaintiff to return

H'rede abducto

H'rede abducto, an ancient writ that lay for the lord, who, having by right the wardship of his tenant under age, could not obtain his person, the same being carried away by

Debet et solet

Debet et solet. If a person sued to recover any right, whereof his ancestor was disseised by the tenant or his ancestor, then he uses only the word debet … was disseised by the tenant or his ancestor, then he uses only the word debet alone in his writ, it is not apt to use solet because his ancestor only was deceased, and the custom discontinued; but

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Bar, plea in

Law. A plea in bar was therefore distinguished from all pleas of the dilatory class, as impugning the right of action altogether, instead of merely tending to divert the proceedings to another jurisdiction, or suspend them, or … instead of merely tending to divert the proceedings to another jurisdiction, or suspend them, or abate the particular writ or declaration. It was, in short, a substantial and conclusive answer to the action. It followed from this

Assise of darrein presentment

who was duly instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance, a stranger presents a clerk, thus disturbing the right of the lawful patron; upon this, the patron issued this writ, directed to the sheriff to summon an

Woman

the liability to serve as a juror. A peeress in her own right is not entitled to a writ of summons to the House of Lords, Rhondda's (Viscountess) Petition, (1922) 2 AC 339. The Parliamentary Franchise was extended

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