Minutes of return of writs by sheriffs, 1797-1799.

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Minutes of return of writs by sheriffs, 1797-1799.

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This volume contains minutes of the return of writs by sheriffs (or by coroners, in cases of attachments against sheriffs), with notes of motions and orders for proper execution of writs which had been returned only partially executed. The most frequent entries are for writs of capias ad respondendum (abbreviated "capias"), fieri facias ("fi.fa.") and capias ad satisfaciendum ("ca.sa."). The writ of capias ordered the sheriff to arrest a defendant for appearance in court to answer the plaintiff. The return to the writ was cepi corpus ("I took the body"). On entering the return of cepi corpus, there may be an additional order to the sheriff to bring in the body of the defendant or be "amerced" (fined). The writ of fieri facias ordered a sheriff to sell a defendant's real or personal property to satisfy a judgment. The return to this writ was usually a statement that "no goods, chattels, lands or tenements" were found. The return may include a list of property sold. The writ of capias ad satisfaciendum ordered a sheriff to arrest and imprison a defendant until the judgment against him was satisfied. Writs entered only rarely in this volume are the writ of scire facias, by which a party is ordered to show cause, usually as to why a judgment should not be satisfied; writ of venditione exponas, ordering a sheriff to put for sale property of a judgment debtor.

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