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  • DE CAUTIONE ADMITTENDA
    Writ to take caution or security. A writ which anciently lay against a bishop who held an excommunicated person in prison for his contempt notwithstanding he had offered sufficient security (idoneam cautloncm) to obey the commands of the church; commanding him to take such security and release the prisoner. Reg. More...
  • DE CERTIFICANDO
    A writ requiring a thing to be certified. A kind of certiorari. Reg. Orig. 151, 152.
  • DE CERTIORANDO
    A writ for certifying. A writ directed to the sheriff, requiring him to certify to a particular fact Reg. Orig. 24.
  • DE CHAMPERTIA
    Writ of champerty. A writ directed to the justices of the bench, commanding the enforcement of the statute of champei-tors. Reg. Orig. 183; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 172.
  • DE CHAR ET DE SANK
    L. Fr. Of flesh and blood. Affaire rechat de char et de sank. Words used in claiming a person to be a villein, in the time of Edward II. Y. B. P. 1 Edw. II. p. 4.
  • DE CHIMINO
    A writ for the enforcement of a right of way. Reg. Orig. 155.
  • DE CIBARIIS UTENDIS
    Of victuals to be used. The title of a sumptuary statute passed 10 Edw. III. St 3, to restrain the expense- of entertainments. Barring. Ob. St 240.
  • DE CLAMEA ADMITTENDA IN ITINERE PER ATTORNATUM
    See CLAMEA ADMITTENDA, etc.
  • DE CLARO DIE
    By daylight Fleta, lib. 2, c. 76, ? 8.
  • DE CLAUSO FRACTO
    Of close broken; of breach of close. See CLAUSTJM FREGIT.
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