c.1894: I don't suppose you'll get more than a couple of months' quod for them. — an acquaintance of Norman Lindsay, quoted by James Cockington, Banned: Tales From the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-7333-1502-X, page 7.
if the plaintife or demandaunt desist in prosecuting an action, by bringing it to a triall, the defendant or tenent may take out the venire facias to the Shyreeue: which hath in it these words, Prouiso quod, &c.; to this ende, that if the plaintife take out any writ to that purpose, the shyreeue shall summon but one Iurie vpon them both.