ne exeatn.
/ˌneɪ ˈɛksɪat/, /ˌniː ˈɛksɪat/, U.S. /ˌneɪ ˈɛɡziæt/, /ˌni ˈɛɡziæt/ Originally and chiefly U.S. Law.
= ne exeat regno n.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > other types of writ
utrumc1290
quo warrantoa1325
writ of right closea1325
writ of oyer and terminer1414
writ of right1414
quare impedit?a1424
prohibition?1435
praecipec1440
supplicavita1450
replevy1451
ouster-le-main1485
praecipe in capitec1523
value1527
inhibition1532
rehabilitation1533
melius inquirendum1549
ne exeat regnum1559
quo minus1592
letters (or writ) of supplementc1600
inhibition1603
fair pleading1607
ingressu1607
ne exeat regno1607
account1622
associationa1625
ship-writ1640
cessavit1641
ne exeat1644
devastavit1651
right close1651
writ of second deliverance1652
fair pleader1655
beaupleader1700
proclamation writ1713
writ of inquiry1809
writ of intendence and respondence1881
1644 Proc. Provincial Court in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 216 A writ of ne exeat.
1782 J. Trumbull M'Fingal iv. 96 Care not what George or North would be at, Nor heed their writs of ne exeat.
1825 Reg. Deb. in Congr. I. 226 That part of the bill which preserved the writ of ne exeat, and authorized its use.
1850 D. G. Mitchell Lorgnette I. 94 A bachelor..will possibly, in time, unless a ne exeat be served, marry some respectable woman.
1913 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 7 20 No wan hollerin' ‘Dooley, J. hurry up with that ne exeat’.
1977 Supreme Court Reporter (U.S.) (Lexis) 98 380 The statute was also derived from..a statute dealing with writs of ne exeat.
1995 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times (Nexis) 10 Mar. b3 The result was a seldom-used legal action called a writ ne exeat to keep Quirantes from fleeing the state.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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