In Euglish ecclesiastical practlce. A process in the na-ture of a levari facias, commanding the blsh-op to enter Into the rectory and parish church, and to take and sequester the same, and hold them until, of the rents, tithes, and profits thereof, and of the other ecclesiastical goods of a defendant, he have levied the plaintiff’s debt 3 Bl. Comm. 418; 2 Archb. Pr. 1284
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
