exigi facias

exigi facias
exigent, exigi facias
Exigent, /eksajant/ exigi facias /ekssjay feys(h)iyas/ L. Lat. In English practice, a judicial writ made use of in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant (or cause him to be demanded, exigi facial), from county court to county court, until he be outlawed; or, if he appear, then to take and have him before the court on a day certain in term, to answer to the plaintiffs action. 3 Bl.Comm. 283, 284. Outlawry has long been obsolete.
See allocatur exigent
+ exigi facias
/eksajay feyshiyss/ That you cause to be demanded. The emphatic words of the Latin form of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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  • exigi facias — Same as exigent …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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  • facias — You do it; you cause. See exigi facias; extendi facias; fieri facias; levari facias; replegiari facias; scire facias; venire facias …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • writ of exigi facias — /rit av egzajay feysh(iy)as/ See exigent …   Black's law dictionary

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  • writ — A written judicial order to perform a specified act, or giving authority to have it done, as in a writ of mandamus or certiorari, or as in an original writ for instituting an action at common law. A written court order or a judicial process,… …   Black's law dictionary

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