Elegit

I. He has chosen; an old writ of execution on a judgment for debt or damages, or upon recognizance, commanding the sheriff to deliver to the plaintiff all the defendant's goods and chattels, beasts of the plough excepted, and if these were not sufficient, a moiety of the defendant's lands, to hold until out of the rents and profits the debt should be levied, or till the defendant's interest should be ex.pired. The plaintiff had his choice (.elegit) of this writ or a fieri facias which ran against the goods only.