premunire facias

English

Noun

premunire facias

1. Obsolete spelling of praemunire facias
   • 1532, [Christopher St. Germain], The Fyrst dialogue in Englisshe with Newe Additions, London: […] Robert Redman, pages 65–66:

     Then they holde that he is bounde to performe it for sauinge of his outhe thoughe he intended nat to be boūden but if he intēded to be bounde by his promise / then they say that an othe nedeth not but to enforce the {pro}myse for they say he breketh the lawe of reasō whiche is y^t we may do nothyng agaynste the trouthe / as well when he breketh his promyse that he thought in his owne herte to be boūde by as he dothe whē he breketh his othe thoughe the offence be not so greate by reasō of the periury more ouer to that thou sayste that vpon suche promyses as thou hast rehersyd before shal lye an accyō after the lawe canon verylye as to y^t in this realme there cā no acciō lye theron in y^e spiritual courte if y^e promyse be of a temporall thynge for a {pro}hybicion or a premunire facias shulde lye in that case.

   • [1590?], [James Morice], A Briefe Treatise of Oathes Exacted by Ordinaries and Ecclesiasticall Iudges, to Answere Generallie to All Such Articles or Interrogatories, as Pleaseth Them to Propound. And of Their Forced and Constrained Oathes Ex Officio, Wherein Is Proued That the Same Are Vnlawfull., [Middelburg]: [ […] Richard Schilders], page 49:

     So that if a man be excōmunicate in any of their Courts for a thing which apperteyneth to the Royal Maiest. that is to say (sayeth that booke) in a matter of the common lawe, the partie excommunicate shall haue a premunire facias, and so was it adjudged.

   • 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. The First Part of the Progess Made in It During the Reign of K. Henry the VIII, London: […] T.H. for Richard Chiswell, page 17:

     When the Matter was thus argued on both sides, all the Judges delivered their Opinions, in these words. That all those of the Convocation who did award the Citation against Standish, were in the case of a Premunire facias; and added somewhat about the Constitution of the Parliament, which being forreign to my business, and contrary to a received opinion, I need not mention, but refer the Reader to Keilway for his Information, if he desires to know more of it: and thus the Court broke up.