PRAEMUNIR

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

  PRAEMUNIRE. In older to prevent the pope from assuming the supremacy in 
  granting ecclesiastical livings, a number of statutes were made in England 
  during the reigns of Edward I., and his successors, punishing certain acts 
  of submission to the papal authority, therein mentioned. In the writ for the 
  execution of these statutes, the words praemunire facias, being used, to 
  command a citation of the party, gave not only to the writ, but to the 


  offence itself, of maintaining the papal power, the name of praemunire. Co. 
  Lit. 129; Jacob's L.D. h.t.