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WRIT OF TOLT

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

In English law. The name of a writ to remove proceedings on a writ of right patent from the court-baron into the county court. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF POSSESSION

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This is the writ of execution employed to enforce a judgment to recover the possession of land. It commands the sheriff to enter the land and give possession of it to the person entitled under the judgment. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF TRESPASS

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practice. This writ lies where a party claims damages for a trespass committed against his person, or tangible and corporeal property. See Trespass. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF PRAECIPE

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This writ is also called a writ of covenant, and is sued out by the party to whom lands are to be conveyed by fine; the foundation of which is a supposed agreement or covenant that the one shall convey the land to the other. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF TRESPASS ON THE CASE

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practice. A writ which lies where a party sues for damages for any wrong or cause of complaint to which covenant or trespass will not apply. 2. This action originates in the power given by the statute of Westm. 2, to the clerks of chancery to frame new writs in consimili casu with writs already known. Under this power they constructed many writs for different injuries, which … [Read more...]

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