Although the species of holding under this writ is not specified in the statute, the received opinion, though not Juridically delivered, has been, that, if they attempt to avail themselves of that security, because it may create an estate, however precarious, in land, their whole debt or charge is forfeited, and becomes the property of the Protestant informer.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
By royal command, a general inquiry was instituted, and whoever could not prove his right to the seat of his ancestors, by authentic documents, was mercilessly but Juridically despoiled of it; the pen of the lawyer thus making as many conquests as the blade of the mercenary."
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
I imagined this was fabricated by the Holbachiques; I knew the parliament to be very attentive to forms, and that on this occasion, beginning by arresting me before it was Juridically known I avowed myself the author of the book was violating them all.
"The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book XI."
Jean Jacques Rousseau