from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
WRIT PRO RETORNO HABENDO, remedies, practice. The name of a writ which
recites that the defendant was summoned to appear to answer the plaintiff in
a plea whereof he took the cattle of the said plaintiff, specifying them,
and that the said plaintiff afterwards made default, wherefore it was then
considered that the said plaintiff and his pledges of prosecuting should be
in mercy and that the said defendant should go without day, and that he
should have return of the cattle aforesaid. It then commands the sheriff,
that he should cause to be returned the cattle aforesaid, to the said
defendant without delay, &c. 2 Sell. Pr. 168. Vide Judgment in replevin.