scire facias

1. 1.

   a judicial writ based on some record and requiring the party against whom it is brought to show cause why the record should not be enforced or annulled

   Broaderwrit

   law

Questions about scire facias

What does scire facias mean?

scire facias means "a judicial writ based on some record and requiring the party against whom it is brought to show cause why the record should not be enforced or annulled".

Is scire facias a common word?

scire 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.