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

    Writ for charging according to a rateable proportion. A writ which lay for a joint tenant or tenant in common, who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the laud came to. Reg. Orig. 182; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 234, BL