Writ to take caution or security. A writ which anciently lay against a bishop who held an excommunicated person in prison for his contempt notwithstanding he had offered sufficient security (idoneam cautloncm) to obey the commands of the church; commanding him to take such security and release the prisoner. Reg. Orig. 66; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 63, C.
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