enotes a writ, which lieth where there is lord mesn and tenant; and the tenant is distained for services due from the mesn 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 mesne lord; and if he makes default therein, or does not appear originally to the tenant's writ, he shall be forejudged of his mesnalty, and the tenant shall hold immediately of the lord paramount himself.