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WRIT OF PROCLAMATION

Legal Term: WRIT OF PROCLAMATION
Definition: Engl. practice. A writ which issues, at the same time with the exigi facias, by virtue of Stat. 31 Eliz. c. 3, s. 1, by which the sheriff is commanded to make proclamations in the statute prescribed.

2. When it is not directed to the same sheriff as the writ of exigi facias is, it is called a foreign writ of proclamation. Lees Dict. of Pr., 4 Reev. Inst. 261.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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