writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in rever-sion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed waste in
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A writ or commission for the hearing and determln-lng any outrage or misdemeanor
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A deed de nna parte is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds hlmself to do a thing to another. It differs from a deed infer partes, (q. v.) 2
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A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. orig. 103
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L. Fr. From time whereof memory runneth not; time out of memory of man. Litt 143, 145, 170
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of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive
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From time whereof the memory of man does not exist to the contrary. Litt $ 170.
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From time to time, and at all times. Townsh. Pl. 17
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of show-ing the tablets of a will. Dig. 43, 5
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of not allowing talliage. The name given to the statutes 25 and 34 Edw. I., restricting the power of the king to grant talliage. 2 Inst 532; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 104.
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The writ of statute staple. Reg. orig. 161
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L. Fr. of his own wrong. A stranger who takes upon him to act as an executor without any just author-ity is called an “executor of his own wrong.” (de son tort.) 2 Bl. Comm. 507 ; 2 Stepb. Comm. 244
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writ for having (or to have) escuage or scutage. A writ which anciently lay against tenants by knlght-service, to compel them to serve in the king’s wars or send substitutes or to pay escuage ; that is a sum of money. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 83, C. The same writ lay for one who had already served in the king’s army, or paid a fine instead, against those who held of hlm by knight-service, to recover his escuage or scutage. Reg. orig. 88; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 83, D, F
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For behav-ing hlmself well; for his good behavior. Yelv. 90, 154
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of or concerning the exchequer. The title of a statute passed in the fifty-first year of Henry III. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 61
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L. Fr. of hls or her life; of hls own life; as distinguished from pur autre vie, for another’s life. IAtt. SI 35, 36
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A writ of safe-guard allowed to strangers seeking thelr rights in English courts, and apprehending violence or injury to their persons or property. Reg. orig. 26
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For hav-ing a return; to have a return. A term ap-plied to the judgment for the defendant in an action of replevin, awarding him a re-turn of the goods replevied; and to the writ or execution issued thereon. 2 Tidd, Pr. 993, 1038 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 149. Applied also to the sureties given by the plaintiff on commencing the action. Id. 147
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writ of rescue or res-cous. A writ which lay where cattle dis-trained, or persons arrested, were rescued from those taking them. Reg. orig. 117, 118; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 101, C, G
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