A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment , and then to deliver to him his lands and tenements again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. Orig. 232. Also it was a writ for the delivery of lands to the heir, after homage and relief performed, or upon security taken that he should perform them. Id. 293.
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