Eng. eccl. law. A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a bishop’s certificate that the defendant had been excommunicated, which writ is returnable in the king’s bench.
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Eng. eccl. law. A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a bishop’s certificate that the defendant had been excommunicated, which writ is returnable in the king’s bench.