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noun - (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.
Writings: holy writ.
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| Formal order |
| Mittimus or mandamus |
| Holy ___ |
| Habeas corpus, for one |
| Legal paper |
| Scribbled, old-style |
| Judicial order |
| Habeas corpus, e.g. |
| Certiorari, e.g. |
| Legal order |
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| Jot this down--habeas corpus is an example of one of these court-issued orders |
| Habeas corpus is one of these orders whose name implies they're down in black & white |
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In common law, a writ (Anglo-Saxon gewrit, Latin breve) is a formal written order issued by a body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction; in modern usage, this body is generally a court. Warrants, prerogative writs, and subpoenas are common types of writ, but many forms exist and have existed. * In its earliest form a writ was simply a written order made by the English monarch to a specified person to undertake a specified action; for example, in the feudal era a military summons by the king to one of his tenants-in-chief to appear dressed for battle with retinue at a certain place and time. An early usage survives in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia in a writ of election, which is a written order issued on behalf of the monarch (in Canada, by the Governor General and, in Australia, by the Governor-General) to local officials (High Sheriffs of every county in the historical UK) to hold a general election. Writs were used by the medieval English kings to summon persons to P |