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  • DE FRANGENTIBUS PRISONAM
    Concerning those that break prison. The title of the statute 1 Edw. II. ordaining that none from .thenceforth who broke prison should have judgment of life or limb for breaking prison only, unless the. cause for which he was taken and imprisoned required such a judgment if he was lawfully More...
  • DE FURTO
    Of theft. One of the kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 40.
  • DE GESTU ET FAMA
    Of behavior and reputation. An old writ which lay in cases where a person's conduct and reputation were impeached; . . .
  • DE GRATIA
    Of grace or favor, by favor. De speciali gratia, of special grace or favor. De gratia speciali eerta seientia et mero motu, talis clausula non valet in his in quibua prsssumitur prlncipem esse ignorantem. 1 Coke, 53. The clause "of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion," is of More...
  • DE HAEREDE DELIBERANDO ILLI QUI HABET CUSTODIAM TERRAE
    Writ for delivering an heir to him who has wardship of the land. A writ directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of him that was ward to another to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of his land. Reg. Orig. More...
  • DE HAEREDE RAPTO ET ABDUCTO
    Writ concerning an heir ravished and carried away. A writ which anciently lay for a lord who, having by right the wardship of his tenant under age could not obtain his body, the same being carried away by .another person. Reg. Orig. 163; Old Nat. Brev. 93.
  • DE HAERETICO COMBURENDO
    (Lat. For burning a heretic.) A writ which lay where a heretic had been convicted of heresy, had abjured, -and had relapsed into heresy. It is said to be very ancient Fitzh. Nat Brev. 269 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 46.
  • DE HOMAGIO RESPECTUANDO
    A writ for respiting or postponing homage. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 269, A.
  • DE HOMINE CAPTO IN WITHERNAM
    (Lat. For taking a man in withernam.) A writ to take a man who had carried away a bondman or bondwoman into another country beyond the reach of a writ of replevin.
  • DE HOMINE REPLEGIANDO
    (Lat For replevying a man:) A writ which lies to replevy a man out of prison, or out of the custody of a private person, upon giving security to the sheriff that the man shall be forthcoming to answer any charge against him. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 66*; 3 Bl. Comm. More...
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