Supplicavit
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
He has besought. The name of an old English writ, which issued out of chancery for taking sureties of the peace, but now obsolete. A supp Ucavit is a writ, Issuing out of chancery, for taking surety of the peace, when one is in danger of being hurt in his body by another. It is directed to the justices of the peace and sheriffiof the county, and is grounded upon the Stat. 1 Edw. III.
St. 2, ch.
16, which ordains that certain persons shall be assigned by the chancellor to take care of the peace, &c. {Fitz. Nat. Brev. 80.) Jacob. And see i Bl. Com. 233.