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Debet Et Solet

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

Black's Law Dictionary

(Lat He owes and is used to.) Where a man sues in a writ of right or to recover any right of which he is for the first time disseised, as of a suit at a mlll or in case of a writ of quOd permittat, he brings Ms writ in the debet et solet.

Reg. Orig. 144a; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 122, M.