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The name of a writ which is sued out after the plaintiff in error has assigned his errors. … [Read more...] about SCIRE FACIAS AD AUDIENDUM ERRORES

In Saxon law. A tax paid to sheriffs for keeping the shire or county court Cowell. … [Read more...] about SCHIRRENS-GELD

The name of a writ in use in Pennsylvania, which lies by a defendant in foreign attachment against the plaintiff, in order to enable him, within a year and a day next ensuing the time of payment to the plaintiff in the attachment, to disprove or avoid the debt recovered against him. … [Read more...] about SCIRE FACIAS AD DISPROBANDUM DEBTTUM

In ecclesiastical law. A division or separation in a church or denomination of Christians, .occasioned by a diversity of faith, creed, or religious opinions. Nelson v. Benson, 69 lit 29; McKlnney v. Griggs, 6 Bush (Ky.) 407, 96 Am. Dec 360. In English law. The name of an act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, whicb restrained Protestant dissenters from educating their own … [Read more...] about SCHISM

Lat. In practice. The name given to the sheriff's return to a writ of scire facias that he has caused notice to be given to the party or parties against whom the writ was issued. 2 Archb. Pr. K. B. 98, 99. … [Read more...] about SCIRE FECI