Elisor: alternatives and connections

Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasu…

(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decis…

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, ei…

an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property

To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a t…

A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of…

A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting…

A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in…

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieuten…

a verdict entered by the court in a jury trial without consideration by the jury; "there cannot be a directed verdict of guilty in a c…

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of…

A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.

The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods,…

Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of presiden…

To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indic…