Præcipe

Lat.

In practice. An original writ, drawn up in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required or show the reason why he had not done it. 3 Bl. Comm. 274. Also an order, written out and signed, addressed to the clerk of a court, and requesting him to issue a particular writ.

— Praecipe in capite. When one of the king's immediate tenants in captte was deforced, his writ of right was called a writ of "præ-ape in captte."

— Praecipe quod reddat. Command that he render. A writ directing the defendant to restore the possession of land, employed at the beginning of a common recovery.

— Praecipe quod teneat conventiouem. The writ which commenced the action of covenant in fines, which are abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74,

— Praecipe, tenant to the. A person having an estate of freehold in possession, against whom the prœctpe was brought by a tenant in tail, seeking to bar his estate by a recovery.