testatum

testatum (tes-tay-t[schwa]m). [Latin “attested”] Hist. A writ issued in a county where a defendant or a defendant’s property is located when venue lies in another county. • This writ, when issued after a ground writ, allowed the seizure of the defendant or the defendant’s property in another county.

— Also termed testatum bill; testatum writ; latitat (lat-[schwa]-tat). Cf. ground writ under WRIT.

“But if the defendant had removed into another county, the next process the plaintiff might sue out against him was a testatum bill, directed to the sheriff thereof, which soon gained the name of a latitat, from that word being within it.” 1 George Crompton, Practice Common-Placed: Rules and Cases of Practice in the Courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas xxxv (3d ed. 1787).

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