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Recordari facias loquelam

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Let the complaint be recorded. See 3 Bl. Comm. 34.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In English Practice. A writ commanding the sheriff that he cause the plaint to be recorded which is in his county, without writ, between the parties there named, of the cattle, goods, and chattels of the complainant taken and unjustly distrained as it is said, and that he have the said record before the court on a day therein named, and that he prefix the same day to the parties, that then they may be there ready to proceed in the same plaint. 2 Sell. Pr. 166. Now obsolete.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English practice. A writ by which a suit or plaint in replevin may be removed from a county court to one of the courts of Westminster Hall. 3 Bl. Comm. 149; 3 Steph. PL 522, 666. So termed from the emphatic words of the old writ, by which the sheriff was commanded to cause the plaint to he recorded, and to have the record before the superior court Reg. Orig. 5b.