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  • DE ARRESTANDO IPSUM QUI PECUNIAM RECEPIT
    A writ which lay for the arrest of one who had taken the king's money to serve in the war, and hid himself to escape going. Reg. Orig. 246.
  • DE ARTE ET PARTE
    Of art and part A phrase in old Scotch law.
  • DE ASPORTATIS RELIGIOSORUM
    Concerning the property of religious persons carried away. The title of the statute 35 Edward I. passed to check the abuses of clerical possessions, one of which was the waste they suffered by being drained into foreign countries. 2 Reeve. Eng. Law. 157; 2 Inst. 580.
  • DE ASSISA PROROGANDA
    (Lat For proroguing assise.) A writ to put off an assise, issuing to the justices, where one of the parties is engaged in the service of the king.
  • DE ATTORNATO RECIPIENDO
    A writ which lay to the judges of a court, re-' quiring them to receive and admit an attorney for a party. Reg. Orig. 172; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 156.
  • DE AUDIENDO ET TERMINANDO
    For hearing and determining; to hear and determine. The name of a writ or rather commission granted to certain justices to hear and determine cases of heinous misdemeanor, trespass, riotous breach of the peace, etc. Reg. Orig. 123, et seq.; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 110 B. See OYER AND TERMINER.
  • DE AVERIIS CAPTIS IN WITHERNAMIUM
    Writ for taking cattle in withernam. A writ which lay where the sheriff returned to a plurics writ of replevin that the cattle or goods, etc., were elolned, etc.; by which he was commanded to take the cattle of the defendant in withernam, (or reprisal,) and detain them until he More...
  • DE AVERIIS REPLEGIANDIS
    A writ to replevy beasts. 3 Bl. Comm. 149.
  • DE AVERIIS RETORNANDIS
    For returning the cattle. A term applied to pledges given in the old action of replevin. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 177. '
  • DE BANCO
    Of the bench. A term formerly applied in England to the Justices of the court of common pleas, or "bench," as it was originally styled.
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