DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO
Writ for taking a contumacious person. A writ which issues out of the English court of chancery, in cases where a person has been pronounced by an ecclesiastical court to be contumacious,
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Writ for taking a contumacious person. A writ which issues out of the English court of chancery, in cases where a person has been pronounced by an ecclesiastical court to be contumacious,
Of divers rules of the ancient law. A celebrated title of the Digests, and the last in that collection. It consists of two hundred and eleven rules or maxims. Dig. 50, 17.
A writ to deliver an excommunicated person, who has made satisfaction to the ehuicb, from prison. 3 Bl. Comm. 102.
L. Fr. Of necessity; of pure necessity. See FINE FORCE.
Of increase; in addition. Costs de incremento, or costs of increase, are the costs adjudged by the court in civil actions, in addition to the damages and nominal costs found by the
Writ of free passage. A species of quod permittat. Reg. Orig. 155.
Where the death of a human being is concerned, Lin a matter of life and death,] no delay is [considered] long. Co. Litt. 134.
A writ or action for damages caused by a pound-breach. (7. r.) It has long been obsolete. Co. Litt 476; 3 Bl. Comm. 146.
Of the ravishment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly in use in England in cases of rape. Bract fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38.
A writ of safeguard allowed to strangers seeking their rights in English courts, and apprehending violence or Injury to their persons or property. Reg. Orig. 26.
A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. Orig. 103.
In English law. That portion of the effects of a deceased person which, by the custom of London and York, is allowed to the administrator; being, where the deceased leaves a widow
The extinction of life; the departure of the soul from the body; defined by physicians as a total stoppage of the circulation of the blood, and a cessation of the animal and
L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 11.
The office, jurisdiction, territory, or command of a dccanus, or dean. Spelman.
Tithes are due to the parish priest.
In Scotch law. An action in which the right of the pursuer (or plaintiff) is craved to be declared, but nothing claimed to be done by the defender, (defendant.) Ersk. Inst. 5,
In Scotch law. The final Judgment or sentence of a court
The act of depriving of a crown.
The raised floor at the upper end of a hall.