Casu Consimili
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
practice, isa writ of entry, granted when the tenant by the curtesy, or tenant for life, aliens in fee, or in tail or tor another’s life. It may be brought by the reversioner, against the alienee, in the tenant’s lifetime. The clerks in chancery framed this writ in dikeness to the writ called in casu proviso, by authority of the statute Westm. 2, c. 24, hence its name, casu consimili,in alike case. Vide 3 Bl. Com. 51; 7 Co. 4; F. N. B. 206. -CASU PROVISO, practice, is a writ of entry given by the statute of Gloucester c. 7, when a tenant in dower aliens in fee or for life. git might have been brought by the reversioner against the alienee. This is perhaps an obsolete remedy, having yielded to the writ of ejectment.