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EXCOMMUNICATO RECAPIENDO Definition & Legal Meaning

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A writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had beencommitted to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obeythe authority of the church, should be sought after, retaken, and imprisoned again.Iteg. Orig. 67.

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