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Sequestrari Facias

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In English ecclesiastical practice. A process in the nature of a levari facias, commanding the bishop to enter into the rectory and parish church, and to take and sequester the same, and hold them until, of the rente, tithes, and profits thereof, and of the other ecclesiastical goods of a defendant, he have levied the plaintiff's debt.

3 Bl. Comm. 418; 2 Archb. Pr. 1284.