Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

diem clausit extremum

n. [Law Latin "he closed his last day"] Hist. 1. A chancery writ, founded on the statute of Marlbury, ordering the county escheator, after the death of a chief tenant of the Crown, to summon a jury to determine the amount and value of land owned by the chief tenant, to determine the next heir, and to reclaim the property for the Crown. 0 It was a type of inquisition post mortem."Diem clausit extremum is a writ that lies where the king's tenant that holds in chief, dies; then this writ shall be directed to the excheator, to inquire of what estate he was seised, who is next heir, and his age, and of the certainty and value of the