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c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. E.6^v/2 It is a wryt of ryght patent which shalbe tryed by batell or graunt assyse.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ddd2a Sometime a writ of Right patent: as when it issueth out of any Lords court, for any of his tenents deforced, against the deforcer, and must be determined there.

1732 G. Jacob City-liberties 168 There are several Writs executable in London; as the Writ of Right Patent in Plea of Land.

1797 C. Watkins Treat. Copyholds I. iv. 169 Timothy Walgrave..made protestation to prosecute his said plaint in this Court, in the form and nature of a writ of right patent at the common law, according to the custom of the said manor.

1836 Legal Observer 30 Apr. 495/2 The plaintiff..issued his writ of right patent, in pursuance of the last-mentioned section, before the 1st of June last.

1937 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 2 37 Whether in a writ of right patent directed to the lord of the manor..the court held by virtue of the writ was or was not a court of record.

2003 M. Mulholland in M. Mulholland & B. Pullen Judicial Tribunals in Eng. & Europe, 1200–1700 iv. 84 It became necessary for the claimant in a dispute over freehold land to obtain a writ of right patent before he could compel his opponent to answer in the lord's court.