casu consimili
casu consimili (kay-s[y]oo k[schwa]n-sim-[schwa]-lI), n. [Latin “in a like case”] Hist. A writ of entry allowing the holder of a reversionary interest in land to sue for the return of land alienated by a life tenant or a tenant by the curtesy. • This writ originated in the second Statute of Westminster (13 Edw. I) ch. 24 (1285), which expanded the writs available to litigants by requiring the Chancery to issue a writ for any situation that called for a writ similar to one that had previously issued consimili casu (“in a like case”). Specifically, the statute provided (in Latin) that “as often as it shall happen in chancery that in one case a writ is found, and in a like case [in consimili casu], falling under the same right, and requiring like remedy, no writ is to be found, the clerks of chancery shall agree in making a writ….” Many other writs were framed under Westminster 2, but this particular writ’s close association with the statute led to its taking the generic name. — Also termed consimili casu; entry in casu consimili. See ACTIONES NOMINATAE.
