Editing Writ (section)

===List===
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The following writs, amongst others, existed in England:<ref>For a list of writs, see, for example, "Antiquities of the Law" (1870) 1 Albany Law Journal [https://books.google.com/books?id=kU8ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA247 247].</ref>
* '''''Advocatione decimarum''''' was a writ which lay for claiming the fourth part or more of [[tithe]]s which belong to the church: Reg of Writs, fol 29b.<ref>John Rastell and William Rastell. Les Termes de la Ley. In the Savoy. 1721. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dLQ3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA27 p 27]</ref><ref>[[Black's Law Dictionary]], 2nd Ed, 1910, [https://archive.org/details/lawdictionar_blac_1910_00/page/44/mode/1up?view=theater p 44].</ref><ref>[[Ephraim Chambers]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP74 "Advocatione"]. [[Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences|Cyclopaedia]]. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref> The writ was founded on section 4 of chapter 5 of the [[Statute of Westminster 1285]].<ref>Finlason. Reeves' History of the English Law. New American Edition. 1880. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qBktAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA501 p  501].</ref><ref>Ruffhead. [https://books.google.com/books?id=6P9MAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PP4 "Advowson"] in "The Table". The Statutes at Large. 1765. Volume 9.</ref><ref>Encyclopædia Britannica. 9th Ed. 1888. vol 23. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7zY7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA412 p 412].</ref> It was obsolete by 1876.<ref>Mozley and Whiteley. A Concise Law Dictionary. Butterworths. London. 1876. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip9AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15 p 15].</ref><ref>See further FNB [https://books.google.com/books?id=sDdOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA67 30] and 2 Co Inst [https://books.google.com/books?id=nzIJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA487 489] and 646.</ref>
* '''''Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur''''' was a writ which lay for a man whose cattle or goods were taken by another, who was likely, during the controversy, to make away with them, and would hardly have been able to make satisfaction for them afterwards. Reg of Writs 126. Cowel.<ref>Henry James Holthouse. A New Law Dictionary. 2nd Ed. London. Boston. 1850. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hqMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29 p 29].</ref><ref>Ephraim Chambers. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP179 "Arrestandis"]. Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref> The writ lay to seize the cattle and goods in the hands of a party, and to hold them during the pendency of a suit, to prevent their being made away with. Reg Orig 126b.<ref>Adams. A Juridicial Glossary. 1886. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eZqgaXG23TcC&pg=PA277 p 277].</ref> In 1816, Williams said the writ lay anciently.<ref>Thomas Walter Williams. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qBhXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA21-IA20 "ARR"]. A Compendious and Comprehensive Law Dictionary. 1816.</ref> Also called '''''bonis arrestandis'''''.<ref>Mozely and Whitely, A Concise Law Dictionary, 1876, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip9AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48 p 48]</ref><ref>See further 2 Co Inst [https://books.google.com/books?id=LxbuAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA327 328]; "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (1984) [https://books.google.com/books?id=DkNlAAAAMAAJ 59] Shakespearean Criticism 150; Dolan (ed), "Renaissance Drama and the Law" (1996) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xq0kAQAAMAAJ 25] Renaissance Drama 158; Ross, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vBFdAAAAMAAJ Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance], 2003, p 26.</ref><ref>As to the meaning of "cattle" generally, see for example Stroud, The Judicial Dictionary, 1890, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tnvxZMnzIloC&pg=PA113 p 113]; and Dwarris, A General Treatise on Statutes, 2nd Ed, 1848,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=tO5iAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA636 p 248].</ref>
* '''''Arrestando ipsum qui pecuniam recepit''''' was a writ which anciently lay for the apprehension of him who had taken [[prest money]] for the king's wars, and afterwards hid himself, when he should have been ready to go. Reg Orig 24. Cowel.<ref>Henry James Holthouse. A New Law Dictionary. 2nd Ed. London. Boston. 1850. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hqMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29 p 29].</ref><ref>Ephraim Chambers. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP179 "Arrestando"]. Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref><ref>See further 2 Co Inst [https://books.google.com/books?id=LxbuAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA51 53]; Reg Orig [https://books.google.com/books?id=Oprm40tAxrAC&pg=PP102 24]; Tyler v Pomeroy (1864) 8 Allen's Massachusetts Reports 480 at [https://books.google.com/books?id=DvQPAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA487 487].</ref>
* '''''Arresto facto super bonis mercatorum alienigenorum''''' was a writ that lay for a denizen against the goods of aliens found in the kingdom, as a recompense for goods taken from him in a foreign country after a refusal to restore them. Reg Orig 129; Cowel.<ref>Henry James Holthouse. A New Law Dictionary. 2nd Ed. London. Boston. 1850. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hqMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29 p 29].</ref><ref>Ephraim Chambers. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP179 "Arresto"]. Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref> The writ was equivalent to [[clarigatio]].<ref>Adams. A Juridicial Glossary. 1886. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eZqgaXG23TcC&pg=PA191 p 191].</ref><ref>See further Reg Orig [https://books.google.com/books?id=MJg0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP283 129]; 2 Co Inst [https://books.google.com/books?id=LxbuAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA205 205]; FNB [https://books.google.com/books?id=yu46oMyRLesC&pg=PA250 114]; 4 Co Inst [https://books.google.com/books?id=ulE0AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA123 124]; De Lovio v Boit (1815) 2 Gallison 398 at [https://books.google.com/books?id=du07AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA408 408],  23 Myer's Federal Decisions 20 at [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2slAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA26 26]; Molloy, ''De jure maritimo et navali'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=wD1fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA29 p 29]; 17 Viner's Abridgment [https://books.google.com/books?id=2WBGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4 4].</ref>
* '''''Attornato faciendo''''',<ref>An Abridgment of Sir Edward Coke's Reports. New York. 1813. [https://books.google.com/books?id=H7gvAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA233 p 233]</ref> or '''''de attornato faciendo'''''<ref>Maugham. A Treatise on the Law of Attornies, Solicitors and Agents. 1825. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HeMGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6 p 6].</ref> or '''''atturnato faciendo'''''<ref>The New Encyclopaedia. 1807. vol 3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mG4O65TZjvUC&pg=PA78 p 78].</ref> or '''''attornato recipiendo'''''<ref>Adams. A Juridicial Glossary. 1886. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eZqgaXG23TcC&pg=PA277 p 277].</ref> or '''''dedimus potestatem de attornato faciendo'''''<ref>Adams. A Juridicial Glossary. 1886. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eZqgaXG23TcC&pg=PA619 p 619].</ref> or '''''Attornato faciendo vel recipiendo''''', was a writ, commanding a sheriff or steward of a county court, or [[hundred court]] to receive an attorney for the person taking out the writ, and to admit his appearance by him. Cowel.<ref>Henry James Holthouse. A New Law Dictionary. 2nd Ed. London. Boston. 1850. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hqMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36 p 36]</ref><ref>Ephraim Chambers. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP210 "''Atturnato''"]. Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref> Sweet said it was the writ [[dedimus potestatem]].<ref>Sweet. A Dictionary of English Law. 1882. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2M4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA253 p 153].</ref> In 1760, Wynne said that the writ ''de attornato faciendo'' was obsolete.<ref>Edward Wynne. "Observations on Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium". 1760. printed in "A Miscellany containing Several Law Tracts". 1765. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AbFfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA24 p 24].</ref><ref>See further FNB [https://books.google.com/books?id=sDdOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA349 156]</ref>
* '''''Auxilium ad filium militem faciendum et filiam maritandam''''',<ref name=Holthouse/> or '''''Auxilium ad filium primogenitum militem faciendum, vel ad filiam primogenitam maritandam''''',<ref>Adams. A Juridicial Glossary. 1886. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eZqgaXG23TcC&pg=PA230 p 230].</ref> was a writ directed to the sheriff of every county where the king or other lord had tenants, to levy of them reasonable [[Feudal aid#In England|aid]] towards the [[knight]]ing of his son and the marriage of his eldest daughter. Cowel. No man was entitled to have this writ before his son had attained the age of fifteen years, or his daughter the age of seven years. FNB 82 A; Reg Orig 87; Glanvil, l 9, c 8;<ref name=Holthouse>Henry James Holthouse. A New Law Dictionary. 2nd Ed. London. Boston. 1850. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hqMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA39 p 39].</ref><ref>Ephraim Chambers. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP217 "Auxilium"]. Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref><ref>English. A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law. 1899. Reprinted 2000. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KVWH3SS7GBkC&pg=PA79 p 79].</ref> [[Statute of Westminster 1275]] c 36.<ref>Digby. An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property. 2nd Ed. 1876. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LXdGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA117 p 117]. The enactment which is chapter 36 in [https://books.google.com/books?id=FHUcmnRIr54C&pg=PA53 Ruffhead's edition] is sometimes cited as chapter 35.</ref> This writ was abolished by the [[Tenures Abolition Act 1660]] ([[12 Cha. 2]]. c. 24).<ref>Mozely and Whitely. A Concise Law Dictionary. 1876. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip9AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36 p 36]</ref><ref>See further 2 Broom & Had Com [https://books.google.com/books?id=Hu1BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144 144]; FNB [https://books.google.com/books?id=sDdOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183 82] and 83; and [https://books.google.com/books?id=TP9aAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP197 The Law-french Dictionary].</ref>
* '''''Ayel''''', or '''''ayle''''' or '''''de avo'''''<ref name=AdamsJG1886p278/> or '''''aile'''''<ref>John Rastell and William Rastell. ''Les Termes de la Ley''. In the Savoy. 1721. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dLQ3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA35 p 35]</ref> or '''''aiel''''',<ref>1 Rosc Real Act [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA127 127]</ref> was a writ which lay for an heir to recover the possession of lands of which a grandfather or grandmother was [[Seisin|seized]] in [[fee simple]] on the day of his or her death; and a stranger entered on that day and abated or dispossessed the heir of the inheritance. FNB 221D; 3 Bl Com 186. It was a [[possessory ancestral writ]].<ref name=AdamsJG1886p278/><ref>Ephraim Chambers. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP220 "Ayel"]. Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref><ref>Also called an ancestral possessory writ: 1 Rosc. Real Act. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA127 127]; Martin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tZNCAQAAMAAJ Civil Procedure at Common Law], 1899, p 127. Ayel is an [[ancestral writ]]: Roberts, A Digest of Select British Statutes, 1817, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n8hCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA148 p 148]. ''Cf''. Booth, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7PdMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA80-IA4 p 83].</ref> 1 Rosc Real Act 127. It was abolished by section 36 of the [[Real Property Limitation Act 1833]] (3 & 4 Will 4 c 27).<ref name=AdamsJG1886p278>Henry C Adams. A Juridical Glossary. 1886. Weed, Parsons & Company. Albany, New York. Volume 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eZqgaXG23TcC&pg=PA278 p 278].</ref> Ayle was one of a group of writs consisting of ayle, besayle, tresayle, and cosinage.<ref>Roberts, A Digest of Select British Statutes, 1817, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n8hCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA148 p 148]. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary, 1846, [https://books.google.com/books?id=R61jAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA133 p 133]. (1879) 112 Westminster Review [https://books.google.com/books?id=LVwVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA356 356]. (1943) [https://books.google.com/books?id=P8JVAAAAYAAJ Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research] 217. Booth, The Nature and Practice of Real Actions, 2nd Ed, 1811, Ch 16, pp [https://books.google.com/books?id=7PdMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA200-IA1 200] to 205.</ref>
* '''''Beau pleader''''', whereby it is provided that no [[fine (penalty)|fine]] shall be taken of anyone in any court for fair pleading, i.e. for not pleading aptly, and to the purpose.<ref>{{1728|title=Beau pleader}} [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240244&isize=L]</ref>
* '''''Chartis reddendis''''' was a writ which lay against him that has [[charter]]s of [[feoffment]] delivered him to be kept, and refuses to deliver them. Old Nat Brev, fol 66. Reg Orig, fol 159.<ref>John Rastell and William Rastell. Les Termes de la Ley. In the Savoy. 1721. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dLQ3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA119 p 119].</ref><ref>Ephraim Chambers. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2UpOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP369 "Chartis"]. Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1.</ref><ref>Bouvier's Law Dictionary. Revised 6th Ed. 1856.</ref> It was a writ of [[detinue of charters]].<ref>Stewart Rapalje and Robert L Lawrence. A Dictionary of American and English Law. Frederick D Lynn & Co. Jersey City. 1888. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sXU8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA341 p 341].</ref><ref>"Detinue of charters" (or "detinue for charters") was a form of [[detinue]].</ref> It had fallen into disuse by 1816<ref>Williams. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qBhXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA21-IA146 " ''Chartis reddendis''"]. A Compendious and comprehensive Law Dictionary. 1816.</ref> and was obsolete by 1843.<ref>Bouvier. A Law Dictionary. 2nd Ed. 1843. vol 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KGg8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA257 p 257].</ref><ref>See further, Finlason, Reeves' History of the English Law, 1869, vol 2, pp [https://books.google.com/books?id=4GRHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA383 383] to 385; and Troubat, The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings, 1837, vol 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=kfNCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA30 p 30].</ref>