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  • WRIT OF COVENANT
    A writ which lies where a party claims damages for breach of covenant; i. e. of of a promise under seal.
  • WRIT OF DEBT
    A writ which lies where the party claims the recovery, of a debt; e., a liquidated or certain sum ot money alleged to be due to him.
  • WRIT OF DECEIT
    The name of a writ which lies where one man has done anything in the name of another, by which the latter is damnified and deceived. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 95, E.
  • WRIT OF DELIVERY
    A writ of execution employed to enforce a judgment for the delivery of chattels. It commands the sheriff to cause the chattels mentioned In the writ to be returned to the person who has obtained the. judgment; and, if the chattels cannot t tye> found, to distrain the person against More...
  • WRIT OF DETINUE
    A writ which lies where a party claims the specific recovery of goods and chattels, or deeds and writings, detained from him. This is seldom used; trover is the more frequent remedy, in cases where it may be brought. Bouvier.
  • WRIT OF DOWER
    This is either a writ of dower unde nihil habet, which lies for a widow, commanding the tenant to assign her dower, no part of which has yet been set off to her; or a writ of right of dower, whereby she seeks to recover the remainder of the dower More...
  • WRIT OF EJECTMENT
    The writ in an action of ejectment, for the recovery of lands. See EJECTMENT.
  • WRIT OF ENTRY
    A real action to recover the possession of land where the tenant (or owner) has been disseised or otherwise wrongfully dispossessed. If the disseisor has aliened the land, or if it has descended to his heir, the writ of entry is said to be in the per, because it alleges More...
  • WRIT OF FORMEDON
    A writ which lies for the recovery of an estate by a person claiming as issue in tail, or by the remainder-man or reversioner after the termination of the entail. See FORMEDON.
  • WRIT OF INQUIRY
    In common-law practice. A writ which issues after the plaintiff in an action has obtained a judgment by default, on an unliquidated claim, directing the sheriff, with the aid of a jury, to inquire into the amount of the plaintiff's demand and assess his damages. Lennon v. Rawitzer, 57 Conn. More...
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