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Prohibition

Prohibition, a writ to forbid any court to proceed in any cause there

Quod permittat prosternere, a writ, in the nature of a writ of right, to abate

Recto, Breve de, a writ of right, which was of so high a nature that,

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Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes.

Wilful disobedience, 'willful disobedience' to a writ issued by a court constitutes civil contempt, though mere failure

of a peerage, the Lord Chancellor will not issue his writ of summons to a claimant without a previous investigation of

was removed into the King's Bench or Common Pleas by writ of pone. It was an original writ obtained from the

the recovery of land was as follows: X. brought a writ of recovery against Y. in respect of land which Y.

Procedure Act, 1860, the action was commen-ced by an original writ issuing out of Chancery but s. 26 of that Act

Venditioni exponas, a judicial writ addressed to the sheriff, commanding him to expose to sale

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