Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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pone per vadium

[Latin] Hist. A writ commanding the sheriff to summon a defendant who has failed to appear in response to an initial writ by attaching some of the defendant's property and requiring the defendant to find sureties. * It was so called from the words of the writ, pone per uadium et salvos plegios ("put by gage and safe pledges").