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search  In English history, praemunire or praemunire facias was
a law which prohibited the assertion or maintenance of papal
jurisdiction, imperial or foreign, or some other alien
jurisdiction or claim of supremacy in England, against the
supremacy of the monarch. This law was enforced by the Writ of
Praemunire facias, a writ of summons from which the law takes
its name.  The name praemunire may denote the statute, the writ,
or the offence.  Praemunire in classical Latin means to fortify.
In medieval Latin, praemunire was confused with and used for
praemonere, to forewarn, as the writ commanded that the sheriff
do (facias) warn (praemunire) the summoned person to appear
before the Court.[1]   The Statute of Praemunire (16 Ric. 2, c.
5) was passed by the Parliament of England during the reign of
Richard II, who purchased various loans from foreign creditors
and rulers as well as bulls from Rome in 1392. It was only one
of numerous stringent measures pa