Legal Definition and Related Resources of Accedas ad curiam
Meaning of Accedas ad curiam
(Lat. that you go to court). In English law. An original writ issuing out of chancery and directed to the sheriff, for the purpose of removing a replevin suit from the hundred court or court baron before one of the superior courts of law. It directs the sheriff to go to the lower court, and there cause the plaint to be recorded, and to return, etc. See Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 18; Dyer, 169.
What does Accedas ad curiam mean in American Law?
The definition of Accedas ad curiam in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
An old writ out of chancery directed to a sheriff for the purpose of removing an action of replevin from a feudal court (e.g., the Court Baron) or a local court (e.g., the hundred court) to a royal court.
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Concept of “Accedas Ad Curiam”
Traditional meaning of accedas ad curiam in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) (That you go to the court.) An English common- law writ to remove a cause from an inferior court not of record to one of the higher courts; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 34.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Accedas Ad Curiam”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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Meaning of Accedas ad Curiam
In this law dictionary, the legal term accedas ad curiam is a kind of the Legal History class.
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