Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Indicaait

[Law Latin "he has indicated"] Hist. A writ of prohibition by which a church patron removes to a common-law court an ecclesiastical-court action between two clerics who dispute each other's right to a benefice. ( The writ was long available - nominally up to the 20th century - under the statute De Conjunctim Feoffatis (1306). Actions concerning clerics' rights to a benefice were usu. tried in ecclesiastical courts, but they could be removed to a common-law court if the action involved a church patron in some way, as when one cleric was appointed by a certain patron and the other cleric was appointed by another patron. Cf. ADVOWSON.