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De Rescussu

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Writ of rescue or rescous. A writ which lay where cattle distrained or persons arrested, were rescued from those taking them.

Reg. Orig. 117, 118; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 101, C, G.