(UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
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(legal, UK, obsolete, or, historical) A certain kind of writ historically used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
(UK, legal, historical) A writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church.
(law, chiefly, UK) Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
(UK, legal) A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts.