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  • DE LIBERA FALDA
    Writ of free fold. A species of quod permit tat. Reg. Orig. 166.
  • DE LIBERA PISCARIA
    Writ of free fishery. A species of quod permittat. Reg. Orig. 166.
  • DE LIBERO PA8SAGIO
    Writ of free passage. A species of quod permittat Reg. Orig. 165.
  • DE LIBERTATE PROBANDA
    Writ for proving liberty. A writ which lay for such as, being demanded for villeins or niefs, offered to prove themselves free. Reg. Orig. 87b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 77, F.
  • DE LIBERTATIBUS ALLOCANDIS
    A writ of various forms, to enable a citizen to recover the liberties to which he was entitled. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 229; Reg. Orig. 262.
  • DE LICENTIA TRANSFRETANDI
    Writ of permission to cross the sea. An old writ directed to the wardens of the port of Dover, or other seaport in England, commanding them to permit the persons named in the writ to cross the sea from such port on certain conditions. Reg. Orig. 193b.
  • DE LUNATICO INQUIRENDO
    The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, directing him to inquire by good and lawful men whether the party charged is a lunatic or not
  • DE MAGNA ASSISA ELIGENDA
    A writ by which the grand .assise was chosen and summoned. Reg. Orig. 8; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 4. De major! et minor! non variant jura. Concerning greater and less laws do not vary. 2 Vern. 652.
  • DE MALO
    Of illness. This phrase was frequently used to designate several species of essoin, (q. v.,) such as de male lecti, of illness in bed; de malo veniendi, of illness (or misfortune) in coming to the place where the court sat; de malo villa, of illness in the town where the More...
  • DE MANUCAPTIONE
    Writ of manucaption, or mainprise. A writ which lay for one who, being taken and imprisoned on a charge of felony, had offered bail, which had been refused; requiring tbe sheriff to discharge him on his finding sufllcient mainpernors or bail. Reg. Orig. 268b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 249, G.
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