A writ issued to require payment of a debt or performance of an obligation within a fixed time, called the "days of charge." The charge for debt proceeds only on a decree of a Court, either in a cause, or on a document containing a clause authorising it to be registered in the books of the Court "for execution," which is equivalent to a warrant of attorney to confess judgment. In bills of exchange, such a clause is held as implied. A charge is given (served) by an officer of Court, and the "charger " (person prosecuting it) may proceed to levy his debt upon the
goods on expiration of the days of charge. But if he desires to arrest the debtor, he must obtain a further warrant from the clerk of the bills, if the decreee was by the Court of Session, or from the sheriff-clerk, if the decree was by the sheriff. Such warrant is granted as of course on proof of service of the charge.

Source: Kinnear, Digest of House of Lords cases (1865), pg. 350.