MRP: Legal Glossary

This page provides a legal glossary to Chancery and other commercial oriented legal process in the mid seventeenth century

Writ of condemnation

Example: "all yoar goodes in Bretons house & in his handes & your five hundred pounds in y:e East India Comp:a was attached [could be “attacked”] by Breton, Nowell, Pearse and a writt of condemnation ready to pass" (XX)

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