(From or on the grievous complaint.) In old English prac-tlce. The name of a writ (so called from its initial words) which lay for a person to whom any lands or tenements in fee were de-vlsed by will, (within any city, town, or bor-ough wherein lands were devisable by cus-tom,) and the heir of the devisor entered and detained them from him. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 198, ,L, et seq.; 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 49. Abol-ished by St 3 & 4 wm. IV. c. 27, | 36