pluries

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He practised a much more easy, certain, and effectual method of revenge, by instituting a process against them, which, after writs of capias, alias et pluries, had been repeated, subjected them both to outlawry.

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  1. In law, a writ that issues in the third instance, after the first and the alias have been ineffectual.

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  1. So called from the Late Latin word pluries, often, which occurs in the first clause; from Latin plus (plur-), more: see plus.
 

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