FIERI FACIAS

(That you cause,to be made.) In practice. A writ of execution commanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a judgment from the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor. Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticu. When a sheriff to a common fi. fa. returns nulla bona, and that the defendant is a beneficed clerk, not having any lay fee; a plaintiff may issue a ft. fa, de bonis ecclesuisticis, addressed to the bishop of the diocese or to the archbishop, (during the vacancy of the bishop’s see,) commanding him tO’inake of the ecclesiastical goods and chattels belonging to the defendant within his diocese the sum therein mentioned. 2 Chit Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.V 1062. Fieri facias da bonis tostatoris. The writ issued on an ordinary judgment against an executor when sued for a debt due by his testator. If the sheriff returns to this writ nulla bona, and a devastavit, {q. v.,) the plaintiff may sue out a fieri facias ae bonis propriis, under which the goods if the executor himself are seized. Sweet.