Non molestando, a writ that lay for a person who was molested contrary to the King's protection granted to him.
Novel disseisin, writ of, to recover property of which a person had been dispossessed since the last circuit of the Judges.
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Outfangthefe, a privilege of a lord whereby he was enabled to call any man, dwelling in his manor and taken for felony in another place out of his fee, to judgment in his own court.
Outlawry, or outlagary, the being put out of the law for contempt in wilfully avoiding the execution of the process of the King's Courts.
Oyer and terminer, the commission to the Judges to hear and determine treasons, and all manner of felonies and trespasses.
P
Petit cape, a judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements summoning the tenant to answer the default only.
Purgation, the clearing a person's self of a crime of which he was publicly accused or suspected.
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Quare impedit, a real possessory action to recover a presentation, or to try a disputed title to an advowson.
Quid juris clamat, a judicial writ issued out of the record of a fine, which lay for the grantee of a reversion or a remainder, when the particular tenant would not attorn.
Quietus, freed or acquitted.
Quorum, Justices of the, Justices named in the Commission of the Peace.
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Reddit se, or reddidit se, applied to a person who renders himself to prison in discharge of his bail.
Redubbers, persons who bought stolen cloth and turned it into some other colour or fashion so that it might not be known again.
Replegiare, to redeem a thing detained or taken by another, by giving sureties.
Reprizes, deductions and payments out of a manor or lands as rent-charges, annuities, &c.
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Scire facias, a judicial writ, founded upon some record, requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the record should not be annulled and vacated.
Seigniory, a manor or lordship.
