INDICAVIT

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 […]