quare impedit

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quare impedit - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  QUARE IMPEDIT, Eng. eccl. law. The name of a writ directed by the king to 
  the sheriff, by which he is required to command certain persons by name to 
  permit him, the king, to present a fit person to a certain church, which is 
  void, and which belongs to his gift, and of which the said defendants hinder 
  the king, as it is said, and unless, &c. then to summon, &c. the defendants 
  so that they be and appear, &c. F. N. B. 74.