Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

bill of Middlesex.

Hist. A process by which the Court of the King's Bench in Middlesex obtains jurisdiction over a defendant who resides in a county outside the jurisdiction of the Court, by alleging a fictitious trespass in a county over which the court has jurisdiction. 0 Once the sheriff returns the bill noting that the defendant is not in the county where the trespass occurred, a latitat is issued to the sheriff of the defendant's actual residence. See LATITAT. "The bill of Middlesex . . . is a kind of capias, directed to the sheriff of that county, and commanding him to take the defendant and have him before our lord the king at Westminster on a day prefixed, to answer to the plaintiff of a plea of trespass. For this accusation of trespass it is, that gives the court of king's bench jurisdiction in other civil causes, as was formerly observed; since when once the defendant is taken into custody ... of this court,