Praecipe

or PRECIPE (Lat.) A slip of paper upon which the particulars of a writ are written. It is lodged in the office out of which the required writ is to issue. Wharton.

I. Command; an original writ commanding the defendant to do a certain thing, or show cause; a paper containing the particulars of a writ, filed in the office out of which the writ is to issue, and intended as the clerk's instructions for making it out Praecipe in capite: a praecipe or writ of right which lay for a tenant in eapite. Prjecipe quod reddat: command that he render; formal words in a praecipe, or original writ Praecipe quod teneat conyentionem: command that he keep the covenant; a writ of covenant on which fines were usually levied at common law.

I. (Command.) An original writ commanding the defendant to do something or show cause to the contrary. Precipe in capite: a prsecipe or writ of right for a tenant in reddat (command that he return) a employed at the beginning of quod teneat conventionem: the beginning of a. fine of lands. the person against whom a praecipe