Writ for taking a moderate amercement. A writ founded on Magna Cliarta, (c. 14,) which lay for one who was excessively amerced in a court not of record, directed to the lord of the court, or his bailiff, commanding him to twice a moderate amercement of the party. Reg. Orig. 806; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 75, 70.
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