Lat in old Engllsh practice. A writ which lay where an inqnl-sltlon had been made by an escheator in any county of such lands or tenements as any man died seised of, and all that was in his possession was imagined not to be found by the office; the writ commanding the es-cheator to inquire what more (qua plura) lands and tenements the party held on the day when he died, etc. Fitzh. Net. Brev. 255a; Cowell
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)