Praecipe

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

  Praecipe \Pr[ae]c"i*pe\, n. [L., imperative of praecipere to
     give rules or precepts. See {Precept}.] (Law)
     (a) A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a
         reason for neglecting it.
     (b) A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in
         the office out of which the writ is to be issued.


         --Wharton.
         [1913 Webster]

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

  PRAECIPE or PRECIPE, practice. The name of the written instructions given by 
  an attorney or plaintiff to the clerk or prothonotary of a; court, whose 
  duty it is to make out the writ, for the making of the same.