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Consimili Casu

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lftt. (In a like case.) In old English practice. The name of a writ of entry which lay where a tenant by the curtesy, or tenant for life, aliened in fee, or in tul, or for another's life. It was brought by him in the reversion against the party to whom such tenant 80 aliened to his prejudice, and in the tenant's life time. Termes de la ley. F. N, £.

206. Boscoe's Real Act 95.

Cowell It derived its name from the circumstance of being framed under the authority of the statute of Westminster 2, c. 24, which provided that "as often as it shall happen in chancery that in one case a writ is found, and in a like case^ {in consimili casti,) falling under the same right, and requiring like remedy, no writ is to be found, the clerks of ihe chancery shall agree in making a writ," Ac. 3 BL Com. 50.

Steph. PL 1.