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‖ pluries Law.|ˈplʊərɪiːz| In full pluries capias. [L. = ‘(thou mayest take) several times’: late L. plūriēs oftentimes, frequently, f. plūs, plūr- more, several.] The name given to a third writ of attachment, issued when the first (see capias) and second (see alias n. 2) prove ineffectual; so called from the Latin phrase pluries capias occurring in the first clause.
1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 109/2 To award and directe the seide Writts of Pluries Capias and Exigent, to the Shiref. 1465Marg. Paston in P. Lett. II. 217 Your councell thynketh it were well don that ye gete an allias and a pluries that it myght be sent don to the scheryf and than he can mak non excuse. 1544tr. Littleton's Nat. Brev. 19 If he make [nat] execution, then shal there go out a sicut alias..and after that one pluries. 1607Middleton Phœnix ii. iii. F ij b, For all your Demurres, Plures, Sursurarers, which are all Longswords: that's Delaies: al the comfort is, in nine yeares a man may overthrowe you. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. xxiv. 314 If he cannot be taken upon the first capias, a second, and a third shall issue, called an alias and a pluries capias. |