Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, in England and in some of the United States, a judicial writ of execution, which may at the election of the creditor issue on a judgment or on a forfeiture of recognizance, commanding the sheriff to take the judgment debtor's goods, and, if necessary thereafter, his lands, and deliver them to the judgment creditor, who can retain them until the satisfaction of the judgment.
- noun The title to land held under execution of a writ of elegit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A judicial
writ ordering seizure of a debtor's property.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lorenzo de Monticelso electus est in sedem apostolicam, et elegit sibi nomen Paulum Quartum.
The White Devil 2007
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Note 50: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I in dominica Palmarum, PL 183.255: "qui parvulus natus est, et primam parvulorum elegit aciem (Innocentes loquor), hodie quoque parvulos a gratia non excludit." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Lorenzo de Monticelso electus est in sedem apostolicam, et elegit sibi nomen Paulum Quartum.
The White Devil 2007
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Et elegit sibi Lot omnem planitiem Jarden, et profectus est Lot ad
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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* Non ob aliud dicit, non vos me elegistis, sed ego vos elegi, nisi quia non elegerunt eum, ut eligeret eos; sed ut eligerent eum, elegit eos.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Pelag., hath this passage of him and from him: “Ignatius vir apostolicus et martyr scribit audacter, elegit Dominus apostolos qui super crones homines peccatores erant;” which words, as they are not now in these epistles, so, as one observes, if ever he wrote them, as is pretended, he did it audacter indeed.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Et puto, nos Deus apostolos novissimos elegit veluti bestiarios.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Quas sibi homines eligunt; alius elegit sibi vitam negociandi, alius vitam rusticandi; alius vitam fœnerandi, alius vitam militandi, alius illam, alius illam.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Et puto, nos Deus apostolos novissimos elegit veluti bestiarios.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Quas sibi homines eligunt; alius elegit sibi vitam negociandi, alius vitam rusticandi; alius vitam fœnerandi, alius vitam militandi, alius illam, alius illam.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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