chartis reddendis

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chartis reddendis - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CHARTIS REDDENDIS, Eng. law. An ancient writ, now obsolete, which lays 
  against one who had charters of feoffment entrusted to his keeping, and who 
  refused to deliver them. Reg. Orig. 159.