De Recto
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Writ of right.
Reg. Orig. 1, 2; Bracton, fol. 327b.
DE RECTO DE ADVOCATIONE (Lat. of right of advowson; called, also, de droit de advocatione). A writ which lay to restore the right of presentation to a benefice, for him who had an advowson, to himself and heirs in fee simple, if he was disturbed in ' the presentation.
Y. B. 39 Hen. VI. 20a; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 30 (B).
DE RECTO DE RATIONABl Ll PARTE
Writ of right of reasonable part. A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind, or between sisters or other coparceners for lands in fee simple, where one was deprived of his or her share by another.
Reg. Orig. 3b; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 9 (B). Abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27.