Elegit

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elegit \E*le"git\, n. [L., he has chosen, fr. eligere to choose.
     See {Elect}.] (Law)
     A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods
     are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not
     sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are
     delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and


     profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.
     [1913 Webster]

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

  ELEGIT, Eng. practice, remedies. A writ of execution directed to the 
  sheriff, commanding him to make delivery of a moiety of the party's land, 
  and all his goods, beasts of the plough only excepted. 
       2. The sheriff, on the receipt of the writ, holds an inquest to 
  ascertain the value of the lands and goods he has seized, and then they are 
  delivered to the plaintiff, who retains them until the whole debt and 
  damages have been paid and satisfied; during that term he is called tenant 
  by elegit. Co. Litt. 289. Vide Pow. Mortg. Index, h.t.; Wats. Sher. 206. As 
  to the law of the several states on the subject. of seizing land and 
  extending it. see 1 Hill. Ab. 556-6.