Restitution
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
WRIT OF. In Common-Law Practice. A writ which lies, after the reversal of a judgment, to restore a party to all that he has lost by occasion of the judgment.
2 Tidd, Prac. 1186.
In Criminal Practice. A wrtt which lay on conviction of an offense involving the asportation of property to compel the criminal to restore the same.