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WRIT OF EXIGI FACIAS

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The name of a process issued in the course of proceedings in outlawry, and which immediately precedes the writ of capias agatum. See Exigent, or Exigi Facias. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF QUARE IMPEDIT

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English law. The remedy by which, where the right of a party to benefice is obstructed, he recovers the presentation; and is the form of action now constantly adopted to try a disputed title to an advowson. See QUARE IMPEDIT. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF FALSE JUDGMENT

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A writ which appears to be still in use to bring appeals to the English high court from inferior courts not of record proceeding according to the course of the common law. Archb Pr 1427. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF RATIONABILI PARTE BONORUM

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A writ which was sued out by a widow when the executors of her deceased husband refused to let her have a third part of her late husband's goods after the debts were paid. … [Read more...]

WRIT OF FORMEDON

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practice. This writ lies where a party claims the specific recovery of lands and tenements, as issue in tail; or as remainder-man or reversioner, upon the determination of an estate in tail. … [Read more...]

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