Crossword-Solution: ELEGIT 6 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Elegit n. A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods
are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to
satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the
debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's
interest has expired.

We have 26 clues for the answer “ELEGIT”

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Former U.K. judicial writ 1 answer
writ delivering debtor's property to plaintiff 1 answer
Writ of a debtor 1 answer
Writ no longer legal in England 1 answer
Writ involving debts 1 answer
Writ against a debtor's property 1 answer
Writ against a debtor 1 answer
Sheriff's writ of execution. 1 answer
Legal writ held by a creditor. 1 answer
Legal debt writ 1 answer
Judicial writ of execution. 1 answer
Debtor's writ 1 answer
Creditor's writ 1 answer
Writ of execution 3 answers
order judicial 3 answers
Judicial writ 5 answers
judicial order 7 answers
Legal writ 9 answers
A JUDICIAL PROCEEDING BROUGHT BY ONE PARTY AGAINST ANOTHER 10 answers
CREDITOR RIGHT 10 answers
A CREDITOR MAY HOLD IT 10 answers
AN INSTRUMENT OF EXECUTION FOR EXECUTION BY STRANGULATION 10 answers
Creditor claim 10 answers
creditor 22 answers
debtor 49 answers
writ 57 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ELEGIT (5)

But [172] he who recovers first shall oust the other of the action, and so it shall be in many cases, as if tenant by elegit is ousted, each shall have the assize, and, if the one recover first, the writ of the other is abated, and so here." It would seem from other books that this was spoken of bailments generally, and was not limited to those which are terminable at the pleasure of the bailor.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 2000
Justices of the Peace who have the power to give restitution of possession to tenants of any freehold estate of their lands or tenements which have been forcibly entered and withheld, shall have like power for tenants for term of years, tenants by copy of court roll, guardians by knight service, tenant by elegit statute merchant and staple of lands or tenements.
Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed. S. A. Reilly 2004
Elegit quippe integer obedire, quam imminutus obsistere: tutius tunc defendit regnum quando arma deposuit.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator) 2006
Approbat igitur ac elegit obtemperantes vocationi_." (21, 917.) The bold synergistic views concerning conversion later on developed by Melanchthon plainly involve the doctrine that there must be in man a cause of discrimination why some are elected while others are rejected.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Friedrich Bente 2008
Francis, who, moved by the solitude of the place, made his way thither, and was visited there by Our Lord the Crucified Jesus Christ and marked with the Stigmata; with the inscription that explained all this, saying: ASPERRIMUM AGRI NOSTRI MONTEM DIVUS FRANCISCUS ELEGIT, IN QUO SUMMO ARDORE DOMINI NOSTRI SALUTAREM NECEM CONTEMPLARETUR, ISQUE NOTIS PLAGARUM IN CORPORE IPSIUS EXPRESSIS DIVINITUS CONSERVATUR.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Giorgio Vasari 2010
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Used 34 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).