significavit

significavit (sig-ni-fi-kay-vit), n. [Latin “he has signified”] Eccles. law.

1. A bishop’s certificate that a person has been in a state of excommunication for more than 40 days.

2. A notice to the Crown in chancery, based on the bishop’s certificate, whereby a writ de contumace capiendo (or, earlier, a writ de excommunicato capiendo) would issue for the disobedient person’s arrest and imprisonment. See DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO.

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译者Christina，毕业于世界顶级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与反垄断与不正当竞争诉讼相关的法律文件。