L. Fr. In English law . A showing or manifestation of right; one of the common law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the crown, of either real or personal property . It is the proper proceeding when the right of the party, as well as the right of the crown, appears upon record, and consists in putting in a claim of right grounded on facts already acknowledged and established, and praying the judgment of the court whether upon these facts the king or the subject has the right. 3 Bl. Comm. 256 ; 4 Coke, 546.
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