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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
A writ of execution upon a debt due the Crown, or due a creditor upon recognizance, statute merchant or staple, directing the sheriff to appraise the debtor's lands and goods; they were then delivered to the creditor upon his suing out a liberate. Extent in chief was at suit of the Crown; extent in aid, of a Crown debtor against his private debtor. There was also a special writ called Diem clausit extremum.