Border-warrant, an obsolete form of diligence used in the Border counties of Scotland for detaining the person of an English debtor. It was more rigorous than the general meditatio fugæ warrant. See DEBT, MEEDITATIO FUGÆ.
Border-warrant
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 328
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