journeys account

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journeys account - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  JOURNEYS ACCOUNT, Eng. practice. When a writ abated without any fault of the 
  plaintiff, he was permitted to sue out a new writ, within as little time as 
  he possibly could after abatement of the first writ, which was quasi a 
  continuance of the first writ, and placed him in a situation in which he 
  would have been, supposing he had still, proceeded on that writ. This was 
  called journeys account. 
       2. This mode of proceeding has fallen into disuse, the practice now 
  being to permit that writ to be quashed, and torque out another. Vide Termes 
  de la Ley, h.t.; Bac. Ab. Abatement, Q; 14 Vin. Ab. 558; 4 Com. Dig. 714; 7 
  Mann. & Gr. 762.