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. • 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 land, and of whom it is holden; and the inquisition shall be returned into the chancery, which is commonly called the office after the death of that person.” Termes de la Ley 169 (1st Am. ed. 1812).
2. An Exchequer writ ordering a sheriff to summon a jury to investigate a Crown debtor’s place of death and amount of property owned, and to levy the property of the deceased’s heirs and executors. • It was repealed by the Crown Proceedings Act of 1947.“And there is another writ of diem clausit extremum awarded out of the exchequer, after the death of an accomptant or debtor of his majesty, to levy the debt of his heir, executor, administrator’s lands or goods.” Termes de la Ley 169 (1st Am. ed. 1812).
