Significavit

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Significavit is an obsolete writ in English ecclesiastical law, issued out of chancery, that a man be excommunicated for forty days, and imprisoned until he submits himself to the authority of the church.[1] It is synonymous with the writ de excommunicate capiendo.[2]

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