Elongata
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. \irom elmgare,] In practice. Eloigned; carried away to a distance. The old form of the return made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had been eloignedy that is, carried to a distance, to places to him unknown.
8 BL Com, 148. 3 Steph, Com. 622. F. N. B, 78, 74. Archh. N. Pract 662.