In English practice. A writ of prohibition that lies for a patron of a church, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual court by the clerk of another patron, for tithes amounting to a fourth part of the value of the living. 3 Bl. Coinm. 91; 3 Steph. Comm. 711. So termed from the em-phatlc word of the Latin form. Reg. orlg. 35b, 36
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
