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Catalogue description Court of King's Bench, Crown Side, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division: Enrolments of Writs De Contumace Capiendo
| Reference: | KB 5 |
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| Title: | Court of King's Bench, Crown Side, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division: Enrolments of Writs De Contumace Capiendo |
| Description: |
Folded and unfiled plea roll rotuli recording the full texts of writs de contumace capiendo, whose execution had to be notified into King's Bench. |
| Date: | 1844-1880 |
| Related material: |
Until 1844 enrolments of the writ were made in the Controlment Rolls: KB 29 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 1 bundle(s) |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The writ was created by an act of 1813 to replace that of de excommunicate capiendo, which had long been used to uphold the authority of the ecclesiastical courts. It ordered the arrest of an individual in contempt of an order of such a court until satisfaction had been made. |
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