JUDICIAL WRITS, Eng. practice. The capias and all other writs subsequent to
the original writ not issuing out of chancery, but from the court into which
the original was returnable, and being grounded on what had passed in that
court in consequence of the sheriff's return, were called judicial writs, in
contradistinction to the writs issued out of chancery, which were called
original writs. 3 Bl. Com. 282.