Praecipe

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Praecipe hearing, placing your Notices of damages before the court, order summons

an order requesting a writ or other legal document.

The word comes from the Latin word praecipio, meaning “I command (or order) [this],” and it often appears in the term “writ of praecipe.” In the US, praecipes are writs that have one of the following functions: Commanding a defendant to perform an act or to demonstrate why he or she should not perform that act.

1any of various legal writs commanding a person to do something or to appear and show cause why he or she should not.

2 : a written order requesting a clerk or prothonotary of a court to issue a writ and specifying the contents of the writ.