Casu consimili
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
I. 1.
In a similar case; t. Action on the case.
2.
An old writ of entry which lay for a reversioner to recover land alienated by a tenant for life or by the courtesy, for a greater estate than he held; so called because like the writ of Casu proviso, which was a similar writ brought against a tenant in dower. Both could be brought during the life of the tenant, thus differing from Ad communem legem.