capias in withernam

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CAPIAS IN WITHERNAM, practice. A writ issued after a return of elongata or 
eloigned has been made to a writ of retorno habendo, commanding the sheriff 
to take so many of the distrainer's goods by way of reprisal, as will equal 
the goods mentioned in the retorno habendo. 2 Inst. 140; F. N. B. 68; and 
see form in 2 Sell. Pr. 169. 
    

[email protected]