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reˈturn-day
[Cf. return n. 8 b.]
Law. The day on which a writ is appointed to be returned.
1651Sir J. Davies Abridg. Rep. ii. 53 If the Prisoner by force of Habeas Corpus &c. be brought to Westminster at the Return day [etc.]. 1766Burrow's Rep. II. 815 The Truth of the Return must be taken to be what was true at the Return-Day of the Writ. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 549/2 [To] return to the court from whence the writ issued, on the return day, what he has done with it. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 100 All original writs are returnable on these days, and they are therefore called the return days. 1843–56Bouvier Law Dict. (ed. 6) 475/2 The sheriff is in general not required to return his writ until the return day. |