"Elegit" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

(Lat He has chosen.) This is the name, in Engllsh practice, of a writ of execution first given by the statute of Westm. 2 (13 Edw. I. c. 18) either upon a judgment for a debt or damages or upon the forfeiture of a recognizance taken in the king’s court. It is so called because it is in the choice or election of the plaintiff whether he will sue out this writ or a fl. fa. By it the defendant’s goods and chattels are ap-praised and all of them (except oxen and beasts of the plow) are delivered to the plaintiff, at such reasonable appraisement and price, ln part satisfaction of his debt If the goods are not sufficient, then the mole* ty of his freehold lands, which he had at the time of the judgment given, are also to be delivered to the plaintiff, to hold till out of the rents and profits thereof the debt be lev ied, or till the defendant’s interest be expired. During this period the plaintiff is called “tenant by elegit,” and his estate, an “es-tate by elegit.” This writ, or Its analogue, is in use in some of the United States, ns Virginia and Kentucky. See 3 Bl. Comm. 418; Hutcheson v. Grubbs, 80 Va. 254; North American F. Ins. Co. v. Graham, 5 Sandf. (N. Y.) 197

A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods
are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to
satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the
debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's
interest has expired.