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WRIT OF RESTITUTION Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

A writ which is issued on the reversal of a Judgment commanding the sheriff to restore to the defendant below the thing levied upon, if it has not been sold, and, if it has been sold, the proceeds. Bac. Abr. “Execution,” Q.

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