Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

praecipe quod reddat

[Latin "command that he render"] Hist. A writ directing the defendant to return certain property. ( An action for common recovery was often begun with this writ. When the writ was brought to recover land, it was termed ingressu. See COMMON RECOVERY. "The praecipe quad reddat was the proper writ when the plaintiffs action was for a specifick thing; as for the recovery of a debt certain, or for the restoration of such a chattel, or for giving up such a house, or so much land, specifying the nature and quantity of it. By this writ the sheriff was commanded to summon the tenant or defendant to appear at Westminster, at such a day in term." 1 George Crompton, Rules and Cases of Practice in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas xxxix (3d ed. 1787).