Etymology

scire facias

Today it means: A judicial writ directing the sheriff to make the record known to a specified party, and requiring that defendant to show cause why the party bringing the writ should not be able to cite that record in his own interest, or why, in the case of letters patent and grants, the patent or grant should not be annulled and vacated. Full definition →

Latin scīre faciās
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromscīre faciās“let them know”
  2. English todayscire facias

Borrowed from Latin scīre faciās (“let them know”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.