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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In old English law
A writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to lay houses of religion, or to an abbot and convent, or to the warden or master of an hospital and his convent, to find certain poor men with necessaries, and do divine service, etc., were alienated, to the disherison of the house and church. By means of this writ the donor or his heirs could recover the lands.
Reg. Orig. 238; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 210.