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Elegit. World English Historical Dictionary

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Elegit. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Elegit Law. [f. L. ēlēgit ‘he has chosen,’ 3rd pers. sing. perfect tense of ēligĕre to choose; see quot. 1809.] A writ of execution, by which a creditor is put in possession of (formerly half) the goods and lands of a debtor, until his claim is satisfied.

1 1503–4.  Act 19 Hen. VII., c. 36 § 1. To sue execucion … by write or wryttes of Elegit.

2 1632.  Star Chamb. Cases (1886), 124. He tooke forth an Elegit for the rest of the Judgment.

3 1796.  J. Anstey, Pleader’s Guide (1803), 70. Quare clausum fregit May breed a monster called Elegit.

4 1809.  Tomlins, Law. Dict., Elegit from the words in the writ, elegit sibi liberari, because the plaintiff hath chosen this writ of execution.

5 1876.  Digby, Real Prop., v. § 5. 247. The writ … has ever since the Statute of Westminster II been called the writ of elegit.

6   b.  The right secured by this writ.

7 1715.  M. Davies, Ath. Brit., I. 309. As for Tenancy of Elegit, Statute-Merchant and Staple, [etc.].

8 1809.  Tomlins, Law Dict., s.v., The creditor … during that term … is tenant by elegit.

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