States

Rescissory action: in Scotch law, one brought to avoid a deed or other instrument. Qui tarn action: & popular action, brought on behalf of the sovereign and the informer. Transitory action: one which may be brought in any county, with any venire; not local. Plea to the action of the -writ: one which went to show that the plaintiff had no cause to have the writ he brought; v. Plea. Action upon the case: an action so called because the plaintiffs whole case was set forth in the writ, there being no original writ to cover his cause of action. A remedy given by the Statute of Westminster II. in which similar consimili casu) to those covthere -sras no actual violence or immediate nominatse were those for which original