Exigent
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
or EXIGI FACIAS. L. Lat, In English practice. A judicial writ made use of in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, (or cause him to be demanded, exigi faeiai,) from county court to county court, until he be outiawed; or, if he appear, then to take and have him before the court on a day certain in term, to answer to the plaintiff's action.
1 Tidd, Pr. 182; 3 Bl. Comm. 283, 284; Archb. N. Pr. 435. Now regulated by St. 2 Wm. IV. c. 39.