return dayn.
/rᵻˈtəːn ˌdeɪ/, U.S. /rəˈtərn ˌdeɪ/, /riˈtərn ˌdeɪ/ Law.
The day on which a writ of execution is appointed to be returned.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > return of writ > day when writ to be returned
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return day1623
1623 T. Powell Attourneys Acad. 2 If the Sub poena bee returnable vpon the certaine Returne day.
1651 tr. J. Davies Perfect Abridgm. Rep. E. Cook iii. 53 If the Prisoner by force of Habeas corpus &c. be brought to Westminster at the Return day [etc.].
1766 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 2 815 The Truth of the Return must be taken to be what was true at the Return-Day of the Writ.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 549/2 [To] return to the court from whence the writ issued, on the return day, what he has done with it.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 100 All original writs are returnable on these days, and they are therefore called the return days.
1856 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 6) 475/2 The sheriff is in general not required to return his writ until the return day.
1878 Amer. Law Reg. 26 482 In civil cases if a party escapes, who is in custody on mesne process, he may be retaken any time before the return day.
1918 Times 10 May 4/2 The Judge then ordered the appellants' wife to be substituted as defendant, with notice, and on her attending on the return day he gave judgment for recovery of the premises against her.
1963 Yale Law Jrnl. 72 667 In Connecticut the demand is timely if made either within 30 days after the return day or within 10 days after an issue of fact is joined.
2000 D. J. Clark & G. McCoy Most Fund. Legal Right iii. 67 The applicants were released before the return day of the writ.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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