In English ecclesiastical practice. A process in the ua- ture of a levari facias , commanding the bish- _op to euter into the rectory and parish fl church, and to take and sequester the same, and hold them until, of the rents, tithes, and profits thereof, and of the other ecclesiastical goods of a defendant, he have levied the plaintiffs debt. 3 Bl. Comm. 418; 2 Archb. gPr. 1284.
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