enotes a writ, which lieth where there is lord mein and tenant; and the tenant is disfrained for services due from the mein to the superior lord.

This is in the nature of a writ of right; and in this case the tenant shall have judgment to be acquitted or indemnified by the mein lord; and if he makes default therein, or does not appear originally to the tenant's writ, he shall be forejudged of his mefnalty, and the tenant shall hold immediately of the lord paramount himself.