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To seize and detain by law. … [Read more...] about EXCUSS

A writ commanding execution of a judgment. Obsolete Cowell. … [Read more...] about EXECUTIONE FACIENDA

In ecclesiastical law. A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a bishop's certificate that the defendant had been excommunicated, and requiring the sheriff to arrest and imprison him, returnable to the king's bench. 4 Bl. Comm. 415; Bac Abr. "Excommunication," E. … [Read more...] about EXCOMMUNICATO CAPIENDO

In the civil law. A diligent prosecution of a remedy against a debtor; the exhausting of a remedy against a principal debtor, before resorting to his sureties. Translated "discussion," (q. v.) In old English law. Rescue or rescous. Spelman. … [Read more...] about EXCUSSIO

A writ that lay for taking cattle of one who has conveyed the cattle of another out of the county, so that the sheriff cannot replevy them. Reg. Orig. 82. … [Read more...] about EXECUTIONE FACIENDA IN WITHERNAMIUM