A writ obtainable by a personal creditor, prohibiting the debtor from selling his lands, or further incumbering them with debt. The writ must be served on the debtor, and afterwards registered in a public register kept for the purpose. The creditor suing it out may set aside any deeds afterwards executed in defeasance of the right it gives him.

Source: Kinnear, Digest of House of Lords cases (1865), pg. 356.