Praecipe
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. (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