A writ that lay for a man convicted hy attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and take a flne for his imprisonment, and then to deliver to him his lands and teue-ments again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. orig. 232. Also it was a writ for the delivery of lands to the heir, after homage and relief performed, or upon security taken that he should perform them. Id. 293
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
