WRIT OF PROCLAMATION, Eng. practice. A writ which issues, at the same time
with the exigi facias, by virtue of Stat. 31 Eliz. c. 3, s. 1, by which the
sheriff is commanded to make proclamations in the statute prescribed.
2. When it is not directed to the same sheriff as the writ of exigi
facias is, it is called a foreign writ of proclamation. Lee's Dict. of Pr.;
4 Reev. Inst. 261.