A writ or action for damages caused by a pound-breach, (q. v.) It has long been obsolete. Co. Lltt 47b; 3 Bl. Comm. 146
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of peace, (breach of peace,) and wounds, one of the kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use iu Englnnd, and which luy in cases of assault, wounding, and breach of tlie peace. Bract, fol. 144; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 33
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of peace [breach of peace] and robbery, one of tbe kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England, nnd which lay in cases of robbery and breach of the peace. Bract, fol. 146; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 37
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writ for charging according to a rateable proportion. A writ which lay for a joint tenant, or tenant in common, who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land came to. Reg. orig. 182; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 234, H
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For keeping the peace, and for good behavior
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A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to inquire whether a prisoner charged with murder was committed upon just cause of suspicion, or merely propter odium et atiam, (through ha-tred and ill will;) and if, upon the inquisi-tion, due cause of suspicion did not appear, then there issued another writ for the slier-iff to admit him to bail. 3 Bl. Comm. 128
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L. Fr. of ofiice; in virtue of office; officially; in the discharge of or-dinary duty
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In the civil law. A form of interdict or in-junction which lies in some cases where the defendant is about to erect a “new work” (q. v.) in derogation or iujury of the plain-tiff’s rights.
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Anew; afresh; a second time. A venire dc novo is a writ for sum
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An ancient writ where a parson was employed in the royal service, etc., to ex-cuse and discharge him of non-residence. 2 Just. 264
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of not pay-ing tithes. A term applied in English ec* clesiastical law to a prescription or claim to be entirely discharged of tithes, and to pay no compensation in lieu of them. 2 Bl. Comm. 31
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A writ forbidding the justices from holding an assise in a particular case. Reg. orig. 221
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of a modus of tithing. A term applied in English ecclesiaetical law to a prescription to have a special manner of tithing. 2 Bl. Comm. 29; 3 Steph. Comm. 130
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A writ which lay for a lord directed to the sheriff, com-manding him to apprehend a fugitive villein, and restore him, with all his chattels, to the lord. Reg. orlg. 87; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 77
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“Concerning merchants.” The name of a statute passed in the eleventh year of Edw. I. (1233,) more commonly called the “Statute of Acton Bur-nel,” authorizing the recognizance by statute merchant See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 160-162; 2 Bl. Comm. 161
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writ for taking a moderate amercement A writ, founded on Magna Charta, (c. 14,) which lay for one who was excessively amerced in a court not of record, dlrected to the lord of the court, or his hall
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A writ in the nature of a writ of right, which lay where upon a subin-feudation the mesne (or middle) lord suffered hls under-tenant or tenant paraveil to be distrained upon by the lord paramount for the rent due him from the mesne lord. Booth, Real Act. 136
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writ of maln-tenance. A writ which lay against a person for the offense of maintenance. Reg. orlg. 189, 182b
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writ of man-ucaption, or mainprise. A writ which lay for one who, being taken and Imprisoned on a charge of felony, had offered bail, which had been refused *, requiring tbe sheriff to discharge him on hls finding sufficient mainpernors or bail. Reg. orlg. 268b; Fltzh. Nat Brev. 249, G
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writ of permission to cross the sea. An old writ directed to the wardens of the port of Dover, or other seaport in England, com-manding them to permit the persons named in the writ to cross the sea from such port, on certain conditions. Reg. orig. 193b.
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