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 for damages for the abduction of one’s wife.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A writ which lay where a man's wife had been ravished and carried away. A species of writ of trespass Reg. Orig. 07; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 89, 6; 3 Bl. Comm. 139.