Praecipe
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or PRECIPE (Lat.) A slip of paper upon which the particulars of a writ are written. It is lodged in the office out of which the required writ is to issue.
Wharton.