writ of right, of reasonable part A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind, or between sisters or other coparceners for lands in fee-simple, where one was deprived of his or her share by another. Reg. orig. 3b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 9, B. Abolished by St 3 & 4 wm. IV. C. 27
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writ of redisseisin. A writ which lay where a man recovered by assise of novel disseisin land, rent, or com-mon, and the like, and was put in possession thereof by verdict, and afterwards was dis-seised of the same land, rent, or common, by him by whom he was disseised before. Reg. orig. 206b; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 188, B
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writ of right Reg. orig. 1, 2; Bract fol. 327b. See wbit or Right
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writ of right of advowson. Reg. orlg. 29b. A writ which lay for one who had an estate in an advowson to him and his heirs in fee-simple, if he were disturbed to present. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 30, B. Abollshed by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27
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writ for fixing reasonable boundaries. A writ which lay to settle the boundaries be-tween tbe lands of persons in different towns, where one complained of encroach-ment. Reg. orig. 157b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 128, M; Rosc. Real Act 31; 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.
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writ to send the record and pro-cess of a cause to a superior court; a species of writ of error. Reg. orlg. 209
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of the ravlsh-ment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly in use in England in cases of rape. Bract fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38
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A writ which lay for the wife and children of a deceased person against his executors, to recover their reasonable part or share of hls goods. 2 Bl. Comm. 492; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 122, L; Hopkins v. wright, 17 Tex. 36
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nd DE QUIBUS. of which. Formal words in the simple writ of entry, from which it was called a writ of entry “in the quo,” or “in the quibus.” 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 33
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In the civU law. A contract by whlch one who has a claim difficult to recover agrees wlth another to give a part, for the purpose of obtaining hls services to recover the rest. 1 Duval, note 201
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writ for proving property. A writ directed to the sheriff, to Inquire of the property or goods distrained, where the defendant in an action of replevin claims the property. 3 Bl. Comm. 148; Reg. Orig. 85b.
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writ for putting a seal to an exception. A writ by which justices were formerly commanded to put their seals to exceptions taken by a party in a suit. Reg. orlg. 182
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writ of post disseisin. A writ which lay for him who, having recovered lands or tenements by praecipe quod reddat, on default, or reddltion
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Lat On the ground; on a level. A term of the Roman law descrip-tive of the method of bearding causes, when the prsetor stood on the ground with the suit-ors, instead of tlie more formal method when he occupied a bench or tribunal; hence ln-formal, or summary
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writ for acquitting or releasing pledges. A writ that lay for a surety, against him for whom he had become surety for the payment of a certain sum of money at a certain day, where the latter had not paid the money at the ap-pointed day, and the surety was compelled to pay it. Reg. orig. 158; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 137, C; 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 65
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of a plea; of or in an action. Formal words used iu declarations and other proceedings, as descriptive of the particular action brought
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In the civil law. Au action to re-cover a pledge stolen. Inst 4, 1, 14
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A writ of trespass for carrying a pipe of wine so carelessly that It was stove, and the contents lost. Reg. orig. 110. Alluded to by Sir william Jones in his remarks on the cuse of Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 909. Jones, Bailm. 59
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A writ which lay to make partition of lands or tene-ments held by several as coparceners, tenants in common, etc. Reg. orig. 76; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 61, R; old Nat Brev. 142
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A writ which lay where there was a dis-pute as to the boundaries of two adjacent lordships or towns, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take with him twelve discreet and lawful knights of his county and make the perambulation and set the bounds and Unfits in certainty. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 309, D.
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Span. By word; by parol, white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 8, 8 2
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