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fieri facias

noun/ˈfaɪəraɪ ˈfeɪʃɪas/

C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A writ directing an enforcement officer to seize and sell a debtor's goods to satisfy a judgment.

Armed with a writ of fieri facias, the bailiffs arrived to remove goods to the value of the outstanding judgment.

Topic: Litigation in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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