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In Scotch law. "Letters of horning" is the name given to a judicial process issuing on the decree of a court, by which the debtor is summoned to perform his obligation in terms of the decree, the consequence of his failure to do so being liability to arrest and Imprisonment It was anciently the custom to proclaim a debtor who had failed to obey such process a rebel or outlaw, … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A writ to take him that had taken any bond man or woman, and led him or her out of the country, so that he or she could not be replevied according to law. Reg. Orig. 79. … [Read more...]
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Sax. Having in hand. See HANDHABEND. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In old English law. A writ directed to a corporation, requiring the members to make choice of a man to keep one part of the seal appointed for statutes merchant, when a former is dead, according to the statute of Acton Burnell. Reg. Orig. 178; Wharton. … [Read more...]
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Lat. To live honorably, creditably, or virtuously. One of the three general precepts to which Justinian reduced the whole doctrine of the law, (Inst. 1, 1, 3; Bract, fols. 3, 3b,) the others being alterum non ldere, (not to injure others,) and suum cuique tribuere, (to render to every man his due.) … [Read more...]