Elongata
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
The return made by the sheriff to a writ of replevin, when the goods have been removed to places unknown to him. See, for the form of this return, Watson, Sheriffs, Append, c.
18, § 3, p. 454; 3 Bl. Comm. 148.
On this return, the plaintiff is entitled to a capias in withernam.
See "Withernam"; Watson, Sheriffs, 300, 301.
The word eloigne is sometimes used as synonymous with elorir gata.