A writ to the sheriff for delivery of an excommunicated person out of prison, upon certificate from the ordinary of his conformity to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 63. Excommunicato interdicitur omnii actus legitimus, ita quod agere non potest, neo aliquem eonvenire, licet ipse ab aliis possit conveniri. Co. Litt. 133. Every legal act is forbidden an … [Read more...]

A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese; also leave to go out generally. No exeat. A writ which forbids the person to whom it is addressed to leave the country, the state, or the jurisdiction of the court; available in some cases to keep a defendant within the reach of the court's process, where the ends of justice would be frustrated if he … [Read more...]

A writ directed to the judge of an inferior court to do execution upon a judgment therein, or to return some reasonable cause wherefore he delays the execution. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 20. … [Read more...]

A writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had been committed to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obey the authority of the church, should be sought after, retaken, and imprisoned again. Reg;, Orig. 67. … [Read more...]

To finish, accomplish, make complete, fulfill. To perform; obey the injunctions of. To make; as to execute a deed, which includes signing, sealing, and delivery. To perform; carry out according to its terms; as to execute a contract. To fulfill the purpose of; to obey; to perform the commands of; as to execute a writ. A statute is said to execute a use where it transmutes the … [Read more...]