Computo

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In archaic law, a computo was a writ, thus called from its effect, which was to compel a person to yield their accounts. It was made and enforceable against the following persons:

• Executors of executors
• The guardian in socage, for waste such as major dilapidations made or suffered in the minority (under legal age period) of the heir
• A bailiff
• A chamberlain
• A receiver

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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