INDICAVIT
indicavit (in-di-kay-vit). [Law Latin ¡°he has indicated¡±] Hist. A writ of prohibition by which a church patron removes to a common-law court an ecclesiastical-court action between two clerics who dispute each other’s right to a benefice. ? The writ was long available ¡ª nominally up to the 20th century ¡ª under the 1306 statute De Conjunctim Feoffatis (34 Edw. I). Actions concerning clerics’ rights to a benefice were usu. tried in ecclesiastical courts, but they could be removed to a common-law court if the action involved a church patron in some way, as when one cleric was appointed by a certain patron and the other cleric was appointed by another patron. Cf. ADVOWSON.How do Chinese legal professionals usually express the term INDICAVIT?
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