Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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n. [Law Latin "you are to distrain the late sheriff"] Hist. 1. A writ ordering a sheriff's successor to distrain the former sheriff's property until the former sheriff' brings in a defendant to answer the plaintiff's charge, sells goods attached under a fieri facias, or performs some other obligation that the former sheriff should have completed while still in office. 2. A writ calling on an exsheriff to account for the proceeds taken in execution.