A writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, com-raanding them not to give one who, under color of entitling tbe king to land, etc., as holding of him in capite, had deceitfully ob-tained the writ called “priccipe in capite,” any benefit thereof, but to put him to bis writ of right Reg. orig. 4
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
