elegit noun. [ɪ'li:dʒɪt] E16.
[Latin, 3rd person sing. perf. of eligere choose, a word occurring in the writ.]
Law (now Hist.). A writ of execution by which a judgement creditor was put in possession of all or (earlier) half the goods and lands of a debtor, until the claim was satisfied; the right secured by such a writ.

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