PONE PER VADIUM

pone per vadium (poh-nee p<<schwa>>r vay-dee-<<schwa>>m). [Latin] Hist. A writ commanding the sheriff to summon a defendant who has failed to appear in response to an initial writ by attaching some of the defendant’s property and requiring the defendant to find sureties. • It was so called from the words of the writ, pone per vadium et salvos plegios (“put by gage and safe pledges”).

[Blacks Law 8th]