Indicavit

In English practice. A writ of prohibition that lies for a patron of a church, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual court by the clerk of another patron, for tithes amounting to a fourth part of the value of the living.

3 Bl. Comm. 91; 3 Steph. Comm. 711.

So termed from the emphatic word of the Latin form.

Reg. Orig. 85b, 36.