Maynard, in answer to your request, I offer the following even though I am no attorney. Unless stated otherwise, the following spelling & definitions are from Black's Law Dictionary, DeLuxe Fourth Edition 1951 (I am using an asterisk to surround terms that are written in italics in the dictionary): 1) "FIERI FACIAS - Means that you cause to be made. In practice, a writ of execution commanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a judgment from the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor." 2) "AD SATISFACIENDUM - To satisfy. The emphatic words of the writ of *capias ad satisfaciendum*, which requires the sheriff to *take* the person of the defendant *to satisfy* the plaintiff's claim." [Bpn note: Hark -- there is "capias" -- probably more likely than "copias" down in #4 here] 3) "IMPARLANCE - In early practice, imparlance meant time given to either of the parties to an action to answer the pleading of the other. It thus amounted to a continuance of the action to a further day. Literally the term signified leave given to the parties to *talk together; i.e.,* with a view to settling their differences amicably. But in modern practice it denotes a time given to the defendant to plead." [Black's then quotes 3 tiny-printed long paragraphs from 3 cases, in which case law further delineated *a general imparlance* and *a general special imparlance* and *a special imparlance* so if you have any of those, let me know & I'll quote you the correct paragraph(s) you need] 4) Black's didn't have the two words "Alias Copias" together (by any spellings). Separately, it has: "ALIAS - Latin. Otherwise; equivalent of "alias dictus" or "otherwise called" indicating one was called by one or the other of two names [followed by the case citation]; at another time; in another manner; formerly." "CAPIAS - Latin. "That you take." The general name for several species of writs, the common characteristic of which is that they require the officer to take the body of the defendant into custody; they are writs of attachment or arrest. In English practice, the process on an indictment when the person charged is not in custody, and in cases not otherwise provided for by statute." "COPIA - Latin. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access. In old English law. A copy. *Copia libelli*, the copy of a libel." I also checked Barbara Jean Evans' book, The New A to Zax: A Comprehensive Genealogical Dictionary For Genealogists and Historians, Second Edition, 1990. I think there is a newer volume of this book available, which might have further abbreviations. Evans shows: "alias capias - a writ issued in another name; at some other time there was a writ for the arrest of ___ ___" 5) Re your > Als:Exor......as in "the plaintiff recovers etc. and 6 pence for > attorney's fee Als:Exor." I guess "execution costs of the trial" > but that one's shaky. I know from Val Greenwood's book, The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, that a colon ":" was frequently used when abbreviating a word, but Black's doesn't list "ALS" per se. It doesn't list any word that I can readily recognize this would've been the abbreviation for. And no word/phrase is listed in the "A" section that combines "als" followed by anything like "exor." It does list "AL - Latin; French. At the; [or] to the. [Black's examples given were:] *Al barre* - at the bar. *Al huis d'esglise* - at the church door." Black's also does not list "EXOR" per se, and it lists hundreds of words that begin with "ex." (I have personally seen just "exor" used to abbreviate "executor.") I don't see Black's listing abbreviations for these hundreds of words that begin with "ex" including executor, as I scan down the pages of them. Black's lists only two words that actually begin with "exor" which that portion could've been a literal abbreviation for, & those two are: - "EXORBITANT - Deviating from the normal or customary course, or going beyond the rule of established limits of right or propriety" [followed by the case law citation] - "EXORDIUM - The beginning or introductory part of a speech." So perhaps the "Als:Exor." that you ran into in the above quote was noting that they recognized that the plaintiff's recovering and getting 6 pence for attorney's fee was "to the exorbitant" extent, contrary to what is normally awarded in such a case... Evans' book shows several possibilities: "als. - alias" "a.l.s. - autograph letter signed" "als. wt. - alias writ" "exors." as an alternative abbreviation for executors, having listed "exers." too. Perhaps some other List member can chime in with more specific knowledge than Black's or Evans has on #5? Cheers, Barbara (BPN)