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Scire facias
Scire facias Sci`re fa"ci*as (s[imac]`r[-e] f[=a]"sh[i^]*[a^]s). [L., do you cause to know.] (Law) A judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the party proceeded against to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (as in the case of scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled or vacated. --Wharton. Bouvier.

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- In English law, a writ of scire facias (Latin, meaning literally "make known") is a writ founded upon some judicial record directing the sheriff to make...
- office upon good behavior, as enforced by the people through the writ of scire facias. Although it was technically a writ of the sovereign, this power concerned...
- writ of scire facias revives a dormant judgment. A writ of su****deas contains a command to stay the proceedings at law. A writ of venire facias summons...
- 1527. Fed.R.Civ.P. 81 as amended, December 1, 2014. (b) "The writs of scire facias and mandamus are abolished. Relief previously available through them...
- states that do not permit renewal by action (as opposed to renewal by scire facias or by motion), such an action would be rejected by the courts as vexatious...
- person to show by what authority they exercise a power. Additionally, scire facias, one of the extraordinary writs, was once known as a prerogative writ...
- the Companies Act 1862). Whether by any proceeding in the nature of a scire facias the Court could set aside the certificate of incorporation is a question...
- all courts of the United States should "have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute...
- II rescinded the M****achusetts Bay Colony charter in 1684 by writ of scire facias. In 1692, the leading Puritan divine Increase Mather became Harvard's...
- and the agreement is formally vacated when the chancery court issues a scire facias writ formally annulling the charter. The proceedings are arranged so...