{"id":5395,"date":"2017-08-19T06:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5395"},"modified":"2017-08-19T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T07:05:58","slug":"writ-of-justice-command-to-the-sheriff-to-do-justice-between-the-parties-when-a-contract-is-breached","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5395","title":{"rendered":"Writ of Justice &#8211; commands the Sheriff to\u00a0do Justice when a Contract is breached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Definition of <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Vicontiel<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cadj. (17c.) <strong>1. Of, relating to, or involving a viscount. 2. Of,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>relating to, or involving a sheriff.<\/strong> <em>\u2013 Also termed visountiel. \u2013 Also termed vice-<\/em><em>comital.<\/em>\u201d<strong>[1]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Vicontiel Writ<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>(18c.) <em>Hist<\/em>. <strong>A writ triable in the county court. \u00a0In the 13th-14th\u00a0<\/strong><strong>centuries, civil litigation could originate in the county court either by oral plaint or by a\u00a0writ from the Chancery ordering the sheriff to do justice in a case. \u00a0The writ that began\u00a0such a proceeding was called vicontiel because it was addressed to the sheriff.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from George Crompton&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/practicecommonp01cromgoog\">Practice Common-Placed: Rules and\u00a0Cases of Practice in the Courts of King\u2019s Bench and Common\u00a0Pleas<\/a><\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201c<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Vicontiel writs were of two sorts, the one founded on<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=5364\"><em>Torts<\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">, the other on<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=3987\">Contracts<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">. The vicontiel writs adapted for<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=5364\"><em>torts<\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">, were those of<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=3916\">trespass<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">, <em>replegiari facias <\/em><\/span><\/strong><em>(aka &#8220;Writ of Replevin&#8221;)<\/em><strong>, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">nuisance, &amp;\u00a0others of the like nature; &amp; those of matters of contract were\u00a0called <em>writs of justice<\/em>, which was a command to the sheriff to\u00a0do justice between the parties&#8230;.<\/span>\u201d[2]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition of Vicontiel: \u201cadj. (17c.) 1. Of, relating to, or involving a viscount. 2. Of,\u00a0relating to, or involving a sheriff. \u2013 Also termed visountiel. \u2013 Also termed vice-comital.\u201d[1] Vicontiel Writ: \u201c(18c.) Hist. A writ triable in the county court. \u00a0In the 13th-14th\u00a0centuries, civil litigation could originate in the county court either by oral plaint or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writ of Justice &#8211; commands the Sheriff to\u00a0do Justice when a Contract is breached<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5360,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5395\/revisions\/5405"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}