Lat. In practice . The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-heiress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother, or any common ancestor died seised of an es- tate in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 197. NUPTI2E SECUND.& 839 NYCTHEMERON