Assistance

Help, aid; furtherance. "Writ of assistance. A process issuer from a court of equity to enforce a decree as; to place in possession a purchaser of mort gaged premises sold for a mortgage debt after he has received a deed. Power to issue the writ results from the principl that jurisdiction to enforce a decree is co-extensiv with jurisdiction to hear and determine the rights o the parties — that the court does complete justice b; declaring the right and affording a remedy for its er joyment. But, as the execution cannot exceed th decree, the writ can issue only against a party boun by the decree. •> A purchaser under a decree for the foreclosure o a mortgage has a right to the writ to obtain possessioi as against parties and persons made tenants or trans ferees after the suit was begun.s