Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A writ to secure a fugitive villein.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A writ which lay for a lord directed to the sheriff, commanding him to apprehend a fugitive villein, and restore him, with all his chattels, to the lord. Beg. Orig. 87; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 77.