(UK, legal) A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts.
(UK, legal) A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts.
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(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.
(legal) A writ from a superior tribunal staying proceedings in a lower court.
(legal, Scotland) A clause in a deed of entail forbidding the heir to sell the estate, contract debt, etc.
(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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(Scots law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.