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Statute-merchant

Statute-merchant, a bond of record (see 13 Edw. 1 (Stat. Merc.) repealed by Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1863) under the hand and seal of the debtor, authenticated by the sovereign's seal, with the effect that, on failure of payment on the day assigned, execution might be awarded, without any mesne process to summon the debtor, or bringing in proofs to convict him, and thus, it is presumed, it obtained the name of a 'pocket judgment.' Obsolete....

Summoneas

Summoneas, [Law Lat. you are to summon'] a writ-judicial of great diversity, according to the divers cases wherein it was used. Obsolete....

Venire facias

Venire facias, a judicial writ awarded to the sheriff to summon a jury for the trial of a cause, but abolished by (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 104. It is the first process in outlawry, when a person charged with misdemeanour absconds, 4 Steph. Com....

Venire facias de novo

Venire facias de novo, a second writ to summon another jury for a new trial.The venire de novo was the Old Common Law method of proceeding to a new trial, and differed materially from granting a new trial, inasmuch as it was awarded from some defect appearing upon the face of the record, while a new trial was granted for matter entirely extrinsic. Where a verdict could have been amended, a venire de novo was never awarded. If awarded, the party succeeding at the second trial was not entitled to the costs of the first. It has since been superseded by a trial de novo. The Court of Criminal Appeal can order a writ of venire de novo to issue, R. v. Crane, (1921) 2 AC 299, and R. v. Dennis, 40 TLR 420. See also NEW TRIAL....

Venire facias tot matronas

Venire facias tot matronas, a writ to summon a jury of matrons to execute the writ de ventre inspiciendo....

Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public

Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public, If it appears to a coroner, either before he proceeds to hold an inquest or in the course of an inquest begun without a jury, that there is a reason to suspect....(d) that the death occurred in circum-stances the continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre judicial to the health or safety of the public or any section or the public, he shall proceed to summon a jury in the manner required by sub-s. (2), R (Takoushis) v. Inner North London Coroner (CA), (2006) 1 WLR 461 [Coroners Act, 1988 (C 13), s. 8(3)(d)]...

Outriders

Outriders, bailiffs-errant employed by sheriffs or their deputies to ride to the extremities of their counties or hundreds to summon men to the county or hundred Court....

Cape

Cape, a judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon the tenant to answer the default and also over to the demandant; the cape ad valentiam was a species of grand cape; and cape parvum, or petit cape, after appearance or view granted, summoning the tenant to answer the default only, Termes de la Ley; Steph. Com.The proceedings in real actions were abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, s. 36, and 23 & 24 Vict. c. 126, s. 26....

Conjure

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner to implore earnestly to adjure...

Bannire ad placita, ad molendinum

Bannire ad placita, ad molendinum, to summon tenants to serve at the lord's courts, to bring corn to be ground at his mill....

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