Exigent

or EXIGI FACIAS. L. Lat. In English practice. A judicial writ made use of in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, (or cause him to be demanded, eaugi facial,) from county court to county court, until he be outlawed; or, if he appear, then to take and have him before the court on a day certain in term, to answer to the plaintift's action.

1 Tidd's Pr. 132. 3 Bl. Com. 283, 284. Archb. N. Prac. 486. Now regulated by statute 2 Will. IV. c. 39.