Law. [L., = he has supplicated, 3rd pers. sing. perf. ind. of supplicāre to SUPPLICATE.] A writ formerly issuing out of the King’s Bench or the Court of Chancery for taking surety of the peace against a person: so called from the first word in the writ.
1507. in Leadam, Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden Soc.), 260. By virtue of the kynges writt of supplicauit to them directed. Ibid. (1518), Sel. Cases Crt. Requests (Selden Soc.), 14. Robert … sued oute of the kynges chauncry a wrytte of supplicauit ayenst your seid besechour.
1623. Bacon, Ordinances, § 87. No Supplicavit for the good behaviour shall be granted, but upon Articles grounded upon the Oath of two at the least.
1682. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), I. 162. Articles were exhibited, in a speciall supplicavit formerly granted in the court of Kings bench … by the court of arches … against Edmund Hickeringill, minister, for severall indignities offered to that court.
1769. Blackstone, Comm., IV. xviii. 250. If the justice is averse to act, it may be granted by a mandatory writ, called a supplicavit.
