Writ of quominus
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title:
Writ of quominus
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In the history of the courts of England and Wales, the writ of quominus, or writ of quo minus, was a writ and legal fiction which allowed the Court of Exchequer to obtain a jurisdiction over cases normally brought in the Court of Common Pleas. The Exchequer was tasked with collecting the King's revenue, and the legal fiction worked by having the plaintiff in a debt case claim that he was a debtor to the king, and that the defendant's debt prevented him paying the King. As such, the defendant wou
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English legal fiction (c. 1230 – 1883)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_quominus
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2022-11-02T04:54:26Z
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