Category: W

1. General. Bill of exchange drawer. 2. Insurance. Underwriter. 3. Options trading. Option contract seller. Also known as option seller.

This Is thewrit of execution employed to enforce a judgment to recover the possession of land. Itcommands the sheriff to enter the land and give possession of it to the person entitledunder the judgment. Smith, Act. 175.

This name Is given to certain writs which may be issued inanticipation of suits which may arise. Co. Litt. 100.

This writ is also called a “writ of covenant” and is sued out bythe party to whom lands are to be conveyed by fine, the foundation of which is asupposed agreement or covenant that the one shall convey the land to the other. 2 Bl.Comm. 349.

In English law. By the statute 31 Eliz. c. 3, when anexigent Is sued out, a writ of proclamation shall issue at the same time, commandingthe sheriff of the county where the defendant dwells to make three proclamationsthereof, in places the most notorious, and most likely to come to his knowledge, amonth before the outlawry shall take place. 3 Bl. Comm. 284.

In England, the king may, by his writ of protection, privilegeany person in his service from arrest in civil proceedings during a year and a day; butthis prerogative is seldom, if ever, exercised. Archb. Pr. 687. See Co. Litt. 130a.

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If, pending an action of replevin for a distress, the defendantdistrains again for the same rent or service, the owner of the goods is not driven toanother action of replevin, but is allowed a writ of recaption, by which he recovers thegoods and damages for the defendant’s contempt of the process of the law in making asecond distress while the matter is sub jud ice. Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 484.

A writ which is issued on the reversal of a Judgmentcommanding the sheriff to restore to the defendant below the thing levied upon, if ithas not been sold, and, if it has been sold, tlie proceeds. Bac. Abr. “Execution,” Q.

(1) A general designation of any form of process issuing from anappellate court and intended to bring up for review the record or decision of the courtbelow. Burrell v. Burrell, 10 Mass. 222; Hopkins v. Benson, 21 Me. 401; West v. DeMoss, 50 La. Ann. 1349, 24 South. 325.(2) In code practice, a substitute for, or equivalent of, the writ of certiorari. California &O. Laud Co. v. Gowen (C. C.) 48 Fed. 775; Burnett v. Douglas County, 4 Or. 3S9; In reWinegard, 78 Hun, 58, 28 N. Y. Supp. 1039.