CASUPROVISO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CASUPROVISO, practice. A writ of entry given by the statute of Gloucester,  
  c. 7, when a tenant in dower aliens in fee or for life. It might have been 
  brought by the reversioner against the alienee. This, is perhaps an obsolete 
  remedy, having yielded to the writ of ejectment. F. N. B. 205 Dane's Ab. 
  Index, h.t.