A writ, whereby an action could be removed from the county court into the royal court. (Bennett, H.S. Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400, 339)
In old English law, a writ whereby an action pending in an inferior court might be removed for trial to a superior one; a writ whereby a sheriff was ordered to take security of a man for his appearance at a specified time.