fieri facias

1. 1.

   a writ ordering a levy on the belongings of a debtor to satisfy the debt

   Broaderwrit

   law

Questions about fieri facias

What does fieri facias mean?

fieri facias means "a writ ordering a levy on the belongings of a debtor to satisfy the debt".

Is fieri facias a common word?

fieri facias is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.