DE ASSISA PROROGANDA
(Lat For proroguing assise.) A writ to put off an assise, issuing to the justices, where one of the parties is engaged in the service of the king.
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(Lat For proroguing assise.) A writ to put off an assise, issuing to the justices, where one of the parties is engaged in the service of the king.
Of the goods of the testator, or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual property of his
Of close broken ; of breach of close. See CLAUSUM FREOIT.
Writ for delivering the copy of a libel. An ancient writ directed to the judge of a spiritual court, commanding him to deliver to a defendant a copy of the libel filed
Of or founded upon fraud. Dig. 4, 3. See ACTIO DF. DOLO MALO.
Writ for retaking an excommunicated person, where he had been liberated from prison without making satisfaction to the church, or giving security for that purpose. Reg. Orig. G7.
A writ prohibiting the taking of fines for beau pleader. Reg. Orig. 179.
Of infirmity. The principal essoin in the time of Glanville; afterwards called “de malo.” 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 115. See DE HALO; ESSOIN.
A writ of various forms, to enable a citizen to recover the liberties to which he was entitled Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 229; Reg. Orig. 202.
As to the proper name, it is not to be regarded where it errs not in substance, because names are changeable, but things immutable.
A writ which lay to make partition of lands or tenements held by several as coparceners, tenants in common, etc. Reg. Orig. 76; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 61, R; Old Nat. Brev. 142.
A writ which lay for the wife and children of a deceased person against his executors, to recover their reasonable part or share of his goods. 2 Bl. Comm. 402; Fitzh. Nat
A writ of safe conduct. Reg. Orig. 256, 26.
A writ of trespass. Reg. Orig. 92.
A mortgage; mortuum vadium.
A warrant from the proper executive authority appointing the time and place for the execution of the sentence of death upon a convict judicially condemned to suffer that penalty.
L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb. Eng. Law, 107.
In ecclesiastical and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and military, officers. Decanus monasticus; a monastic dean,
Tithes are not to be paid from that which is given for tithes.
A declaratory judgment is one which simply declares the rights of the parties, or expresser, the opinion of the court on a question of law, without ordering anything to be done.