In actions for debt testimony may be accepted without further investigations (Sanh.

(Latin for that you cause to be made) is a writ of execution after judgment obtained in a legal action for debt or damages.

Describing legal actions for debt recovery as a free for all sounds suspiciously close to the Freeman-style nonsense that I'd hoped had been thoroughly discredited on CiF a couple of weeks back.

He also acted as counsel for the plaintiff in the case of Arthur Godden v. Sir Edward Hales, in an action for debt upon the test act in June 1686.

They also had jurisdiction in actions of slander, the authentication of tutorial and curatorial inventories, actions for aliment and actions for debt up to a limit of £40 Scots.

The abbey thus retained actions for debt, pleas of battery and medley where there was no allegation of felony, actions over the injury of cattle and horses, and other matters where there was no king's writ.

The defence was still permitted in civil actions for debt and vestiges of it survived until statutory repeal at various times in common law countries, e.g. in England in 1833, and Queensland, Australia at some point before the Queensland Common Practice Act of 1867 .

Milton also contented that the action of assumpsit (or breach of promise to pay) for Milton's use and occupation of Campbell's land was not a lie, but that the proper cource for Campbell to have pursued should have instead been an action for debt under the second document, the memorandum.