Exigent
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
or exigi facias, I. I.
In English law
A judicial writ used in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, from county court to county court, until he was outlawed; or, if he appeared', to take and have him before the court to answer to the plaintiff's action.