- a writ charging the offense of resorting to a foreign court or authority, as that of the pope, and thus calling in question the supremacy of the English crown.
- the offense.
- the penalty of forfeiture, imprisonment, outlawry, etc., incurred.
- a writ charging with the offence of resorting to a foreign jurisdiction, esp to that of the Pope, in a matter determinable in a royal court
- the statute of Richard II defining this offence
