Series
Catalogue reference: C 246
C 246
Writs requiring the sheriff to summon debtors into court to show why the writ fieri facias or elegit should not issue against them, with regard to debts registered in Chancery upon the close rolls: C 54Most of these records were formerly included...
C 246
1289-1656
Writs requiring the sheriff to summon debtors into court to show why the writ fieri facias or elegit should not issue against them, with regard to debts registered in Chancery upon the close rolls: C 54
Most of these records were formerly included in C 47 and C 202
Public Record(s)
English and Latin
158 file(s)
By the Statute of Westminster II debts which had been outstanding for more than one year had to be revived by a writ of scire facias, which allowed the debtor to show why common law process to levy the debt should not issue against him.
Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal...
Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Scire Facias, Series II
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