Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a writ that issues in the third instance, after the first and the alias have been ineffectual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded.
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- noun law A
writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have beendisregarded .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Margaritæ: quod ego pluries tentans, accepi de rupe cespitem cum diamante masculo, et femella, plantans in pratello, et frequentans, focillans madefeci de rore Maii.
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Ibamus autem per Comaniam equitando fortissimè quoniam habebamus equos recentes quinquies aut pluries in die, nisi quando per deserta ibamus, et tunc equos meliores atque fortiores, qui possent continuum sustinere laborem, accipiebamus.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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He practised a much more easy, certain, and effectual method of revenge, by instituting a process against them, which, after writs of capias, alias et pluries, had been repeated, subjected them both to outlawry.
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Post hæc incontinenti sponte in puluerem voluebantur, sícque puluis admixtus aquæ super eos corugelabatur, et vt ita pluries fecerunt, glacie super eos depressata, cum impetu magno contra Tartaros ad pugnam conuenerunt.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Post h鎐 incontinenti sponte in puluerem voluebantur, s韈que puluis admixtus aqu� super eos corugelabatur, et vt ita pluries fecerunt, glacie super eos depressata, cum impetu magno contra Tartaros ad pugnam conuenerunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ibamus autem per Comaniam equitando fortissim� quoniam habebamus equos recentes quinquies aut pluries in die, nisi quando per deserta ibamus, et tunc equos meliores atque fortiores, qui possent continuum sustinere laborem, accipiebamus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Margarit� quod ego pluries tentans, accepi de rupe cespitem cum diamante masculo, et femella, plantans in pratello, et frequentans, focillans madefeci de rore Maii.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Terrestres vermes, qui sub terra nascuntur, similes in longitudine et rotunditate lumbricis, qui etaim lumbrici terre appellantur: hi aliquantulum conterantur et in oleo infusi ad ignem calefiant, et nullo aliomediante, ter vel quater vel pluries, si opportunum fuerit, plagelle impone.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Terrestres enim vermes, idest qui sub terra nascuntur, qui in longitudine et rotunditate lumbricis assimilantur, et apud quondam terrestres lumbrici dicuntur, accipiantur et aliquantulum conterantur et in oleo infusi ad ignem calefiant: et nullo alio mediante, ter vel quater, vel etiam pluries, si opportunum videbis, plagae impone.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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[308] "Sedens igitur in claustro pluries fatigatus, sensu habetato, virtutibus frustratus, pessimis cogitationibus sæpe sauciatus, tum propter lectionum longitudinem ac orationum lassitudinem, propter vanas jactantias et opera pessima in sæculo præhabita ...."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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