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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Wherefore he hinders. In English practice. A writ or action which lies for the patron of an advowson, where he has been disturbed in his right of patronage; so called from the emphatic words of the old form, by which the disturber was summoned to answer why he hinders the plaintiff.
3 Bl. Comm. 246, 248.