(UK, legal, historical) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
(UK, legal, historical) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
(slang, obsolete) A lawyer.
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(legal, UK, obsolete, or, historical) A certain kind of writ historically used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
(UK, legal, historical) A writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.